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proprietor|prəʊˈpraɪɪtər|
[Anomalously formed and substituted in 17th c. for the etymological word proprietary: cf. also proprietory. App. first used of the ‘proprietors’ of the North American colonies.
An OF. proprieteur (once in Godef.) and its fem. proprieteresse (thrice) occur each time in a legal document (1419–1533). There may have been a Law Latin *proprietor, but it does not appear to be recorded.]
1. Amer. Hist. = proprietary n. 4. Also lord proprietor.
1639in E. Hazard Hist. Coll. (1792) I. 458, I Sir Ferdinando Gorges Lord proprietor and owner of the province of Maine in New England [etc.]. 1688Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 230 The Chieff Proprietor and Govr acquainted them that he had little more to say. 1747Franklin Let. Wks. 1887 II. 93 We have petitioned the Proprietor to send us some from England. 1851Dixon W. Penn xxxi. (1872) 291 The future lord proprietor of Pennsylvania.
2. One who holds something as property; one who has the exclusive right or title to the use or disposal of a thing; an owner.
peasant proprietor, a person of the peasant class who is the owner of the land he cultivates.
1645Col. Rec. Mass. (1854) III. 27 Mr. Glouer [and 3 others] are appointed a committee to lay out ye way and judge of ye satisfaccion yey shall give to ye proprietors. a1667Cowley Ess. Verse & Prose, Agric. Wks. (1684) 99 They who are Proprietors of the Land are either too proud, or for want of that kind of Education, too ignorant to improve their Estates. 1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 142 The proprietors of the 800 iron guns here..have orders..not to dispose of them. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 359 The Maker and Proprietor of the World. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xix, One of [the travellers] was the proprietor of a giant. 1849Grote Greece ii. liii. VI. 559 A large proprietor and worker of gold mines. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. I. 98 A large proportion..of the inferior landed proprietors.
fig.1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 283 Hearts are proprietors of all applause.
b. attrib. (usually appositive).
1898Westm. Gaz. 26 Apr. 8/3 The proprietor barber..insisted on a gratis shave. 1901Daily News 18 Feb. 6/6 Even a proprietor-manager could hardly afford such regal garments. 1903Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 5/1 An engineer and landed proprietor-farmer. |