† proprietagen.
Obsolete. rare.
1. The property of individuals considered collectively; the whole body of private property.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > whole body of
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c1829 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 51 The King..is the Head..of the Proprietage and of the Nationalty.
1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State (ed. 2) 141 In the same sense as I at once oppose and conjoin the Nationalty to the Proprietage; in the same antithesis and conjunction I use and understand the phrase, Church and State.
1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State (ed. 2) 141 The Possessions of both orders, taken collectively, form the Proprietage of the Realm.
2. The body of proprietors collectively.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > collectively
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proprietory1802
proprietage1845
1845 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. (1891) II. 28 The interests and concerns of the whole Proprietage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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