PROPRIETARY

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A body proprietors, taken collectively.

3.
n.

A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

4.
a.

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.


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