Pro*pri"e*ta*ry (?), n.; pl. Proprietaries (#). [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propri'etaire. 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.
2.
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
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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Pro*pri"e*ta*ry, a. [L. proprietarius.]
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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