- (a.) Belonging or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
- (n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
- (n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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