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Proprietary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Belonging to a proprietor or owner, or to a proprietary The governments of Pennsylvania and Maryland were formerly proprietary

Proprietary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces.

2. In monasteries, such monks were called proprietaries, as had reserved goods and effects to themselves, notwithstanding their renunciation of all at the time of their profession.

Proprietary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

Proprietary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.

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