PROPRIETARY

proprietary|proprietor. Proprietary, or Proprietor, n. a possessor in his own right

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Pro‐pri″e‐ta‐ry (?), n.; pl. Proprietaries (#). [[L. proprietarius: cf. F. propriétaire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.]] 1. 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.
2. 2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3. 3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.