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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L.
proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See {Propriety}, and
cf. {Proprietor}.]
1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a
thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing
in his own right. --Fuller.
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2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
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3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
time of profession.
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