proprietaryn.adj.
/prəˈprʌɪət(ə)ri/, U.S. /p(r)əˈpraɪəˌtɛri/ A. n.† 1.
a. Church History. The holder of an appropriated benefice; = approprietary n. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > impropriation > one who holds
proprietary1446
proprietar1489
approprietary1547
propriatory?1549
impropriator1622
improprietary1637
appropriator1726
1446 Recantation John Bredon of Coventry f. 91 (MED) The Priour and Couent of the Chirche Cathedral of oure lady seynt marye of this citee of Couentre, persons and proprietaries of the parissh chirches of the same, [etc.].
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 161 (MED) Þe foresaide prior and Count of Merton proprietaries and persons of þe parisch church of Dunstywe.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 7 §1 The owners proprietaries and possessours of the personnages vicarages [etc.].
1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §25. sig. B.ij All Proprietaries Parsons, Uicars, and Clerkes..shall cause the Chauncels or Queeres of their Churches or Chappels to be..sufficiently repaired and mainteined in good estate.
1616 H. Spelman De non temerandis Ecclesiis (1668) 96 Upon these reasons Proprietaries are still said to be Parsons of their Churches.
1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 30 In such Grants..of Impropriate Rectories those payments..are..left as a charge..upon the Proprietaries.
1708 R. Newcourt Repertorium Eccl. I. 359 They..had this Church of S. Gregory appropriated to them for their better Support; ever since which Time, they have been Parsons and Proprietaries of this Ch.
b. A member of a religious or monastic order who violates the vow of poverty by owning property. Also in extended use: a self-seeking or selfish person. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > clerical misbehaviour > [noun] > cleric violating vow of poverty
propertarya1425
proprietary?c1450
propriétaire1789
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > self-interested person
propertarya1425
proprietary?c1450
self-seeker1585
turn-server1611
propriétaire1789
axe-grinder1884
main chancer1940
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 2054 (MED) Þou awe..folow þe apostels in þour leuyng..Þai had þair gudes all in common; Proprietary was þare nane fonn.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 107 (MED) All proprietaries & louers of hemself, couetouse..sekyng euere softe þinges & not þo þat are of ihesu crist.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. 226 All proprietaries & louers of them selfe be fetered and nat fre.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cviijv We are soch mercenaryes, And subtyle propryetaryes.
1632 Statutes Compyled for Better Observ. Rule of S. Benedict i. ii. 14 To the end every one may stricktly and carefully keepe their vow of pouerty..that if any after her death..should bee found a proprietary and to haue anything of notable value for her vse..she shalbee infallably depriued of Christian Buriall.
2. † a. A person who owns something; an owner, a proprietor. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner
ownerOE
owerc1350
proprietary1473
proprietar1489
proprietor1537
proprietory1548
propriary1606
impropriator1631
propriate1660
propriétaire1789
main-master1845
prop.?1880
1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 65/2 The first or former proprietaries and owners of the same shall mowe challenge or recovere the said Shippes, Goodes, or any part therof.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccliiv Our sayd progenitour,..enioyed it, as very proprietary and owner of the realme.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 113 If a Factor..giueth not aduice to the owner or proprietarie of the sale of the said goods.
1664 R. Baxter Divine Life i. i. 11 By a Lord we mean strictly, a Proprietary or Owner, as you are the Owner of your goods or any thing that is your Own.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vii. 299 We are not receivers, but original proprietaries of what we have.
1790 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 16/2 The enraged proprietaries, with their..servants, defeated the plunderers.
1800 T. Churchill tr. J. G. Herder Outl. Philos. Hist. Man xviii. vi. 561 None but soldiers and monks are leading men, and wealthy proprietaries.
1852 Times 18 Aug. 4/4 The proprietaries of the two companies have manifested..a general leaning towards the idea.
b. spec. A person (or one of a group) holding granted rights of government over any of various British colonies in North America (see sense B. 3). Also more fully lord proprietary. Now historical.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > owner of North American colony
proprietary1637
proprietor1637
1637 in Arch. Maryland (1883) I. 23 Insolencies, mutinies and contempts against the Lord Proprietary and the government of this place.
1683 (title) A letter from William Penn, Proprietary and Governour of Pennsylvania in America.
1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. I. 168 By Governour living himself among them, they meant Proprietary.
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 329 To govern under..the lords proprietaries.
1834 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. vii. 261 Some other rights were conferred on the proprietary.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia 261 The Crown abdicated its regalities in favour of a Proprietary, yet claimed to bind him by its fiscal regulations.
1904 C. M. Andrews Colonial Self-Government v. 82 The duke of York, as proprietary of the new colony, was intrusted with full and absolute power to govern and administer his province..on condition that all laws be agreeable to those of England.
1994 B. S. Shearer et al. State Names, Seals, Flags & Symbols iii. 49 On the obverse of the Great Seal of Maryland is an equestrian figure of the Lord Proprietary.
c. A body of proprietors; proprietors as a class.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > collectively
proprietary1786
proprietory1802
proprietage1845
1786 Daily Universal Reg. 19 June 2/3 The negotiation of the Court of Directors with the Minister for the new loan, was arraigned as a very improper proceeding without the knowledge of the proprietary.
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 406 An incroaching but modest plan of reform which will divide the proprietary into hostile factions.
1852 Times 18 Feb. 5/5 The abstraction of Warminster from the county of Wilts may..be expected to increase very materially the power of the landed proprietary.
1926 A. E. Chesterton In Darkest London vi. 93 In the majority of West End bars, street sellers are not allowed:..The objection does not come from the customers, but from the proprietary.
1963 L. Werkmeister London Daily Press, 1772–1792 i. 33 By 1780 there had been a considerable change in the proprietary of the Post. Of the twenty-five shares, Bate now held five..and the remaining twenty were divided among seven others.
2003 G. Ferrero Characters & Events Rom. Hist. 85 The new and more stable jurisdiction of the landed proprietary.
3. Something owned, esp. a landed property or estate; a possession; (also) possessions collectively. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate
homeOE
landsc1000
estrec1275
manorc1300
stead1338
room?a1513
soil1575
demesne1584
proprietary1608
land-gooda1626
country estate1692
property1719
quinta1754
estate1772
hacienda1772
concern1787
finca1909
1608 R. Norton tr. S. Stevin Disme: Art of Tenths sig. Dij That which Land-meater shall need to doe but once, and that at the end of the casting vp of the proprietaries.
1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya II. iv. 122 The actual property stolen..must be restored to the owner, as it still remains with his proprietary.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. Parl. 12/2 Nor could the estate be..divided or parcelled into shares or several proprietaries.
1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 59 406 To one-half of the great proprietaries of the kingdom, a diminution of rent, even by a third, would make their possessors personally bankrupt.
1961 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 51 63 They had received personally large proprietaries from the emperor, with a document written in their name, and a title.
4. The condition or fact of owning something; proprietorship, ownership. Now chiefly historical.
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the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > ownership or proprietorship
owingc1450
ownership1583
proprietary1624
dominion1651
my-ness1662
proprietorship1817
mine-ness1920
1624 J. Donne Deuotions (ed. 2) xxi. 559 Euen in pleasures, and in paines, there is a proprietary, a meum & tuum.
1801 J. Quincy in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 130 The whole Island [of Nantucket] is separated into three great lots... This arrangement results from the nature of the property of the inhabitants, which is, as far as it respects the far greater part of the Island, a common proprietary.
1868 Contemp. Rev. 8 610 There is a spiritual commonalty..in which he can claim no exclusive proprietary.
1922 Times 23 Nov. 15/2 We might build up the same sound foundation for true democracy which an agricultural country, such as France, finds in a peasant proprietary of the land.
1998 Past & Present Feb. 171 The hope nourished by [Irish National] League and parliamentary leaders was that peasant proprietary in the absence of landlords would bring security and prosperity.
5. Originally U.S. A proprietary drug or medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > patent medicine
patent medicine1770
proprietary1901
1901 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 26 Sept. 8/5 (advt.) None who evince a willingness to sell proprietaries at prices satisfactory to their neighbors in the trade should be listed.
1902 Wellsboro (Pa.) Gaz. 24 Apr. 5/1 (advt.) Spring Medicines..We have a complete line of proprietaries.
1946 A. Christie Hollow iii. 32 He wrote out a prescription for an expensive proprietary.
2003 Chain Drug Rev. (Nexis) 15 Sept. 59 Pharmaceuticals and selected toiletries and proprietaries.
B. adj.
1. That is a proprietor or owner; property-owning, propertied.In quot. c1450 applied to members of a religious order, indicating either ownership of property (in violation of a vow of poverty) or excessive concern with worldly possessions; cf. sense A. 1b.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [adjective] > of or relating to owner
propertarya1425
proprietaryc1450
proprietory1618
proprietorial1783
c1450 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Lichfield) (1976) i. 44 (MED) Of clerkes proprietarye.
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 19 The Proprietary Owner of the Soyle.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 106 He was their proprietary Liege Lord by Conquest.
a1710 R. Atkyns Parl. & Polit. Tracts (1734) 409 He would be the great Proprietary Owner and Disposer of all Estates.
1793 tr. A. R. J. Turgot Refl. Formation & Distrib. Wealth §25. 26 The proprietary vassal becomes desirous of..having his lands also cultivated by others.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) vi. 91 The classes who are without any property..would overpower the proprietary classes.
1871 tr. K. Marx Civil War in France iii. 18 The commune was anxious to break the spiritual force of repression, the ‘parson-power’, by the disestablishment and disendowment of all churches as proprietary bodies.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 734/2 Urraca was tenacious of her right as proprietary queen.
1986 A. A. Kelikian Town & Country Under Fascism 20 The provincial aristocracy and the church hierarchy dominated the proprietary class of Brescia.
1991 D. Khatkhate in D. Salvatore National Econ. Policies I. viii. 235 Bardhan..traces these constraints to the existence of a proprietary coalition of the industrial-capitalist class: white-collar bureaucrats and rich farmers.
2.
a. Belonging to a proprietor or proprietors; owned or held as property; held in private ownership. With to: owned by a specified person, company, etc.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > held in private ownership
proprietary1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxiv. 38 Worldly goods they come and go, as things not long proprietary to any body.
1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 27 At last Spaine fell to a twelue-partite diuision, viz: into the kingdomes and proprietary estates of..Leon and Oviedo [etc.].
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iii. ii. §38 Though Sheep, which are Proprietary, are seldom Marked, yet they are not apt to straggle.
1772 H. Verelst View Eng. Govt. Bengal ii. 72 The same regulations were established in the other proprietary lands of the company.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. 102 Alodial lands are commonly opposed to beneficiary or feudal; the former being strictly proprietary.
1867 Edinb. Evening Courant 11 Sept. 8/5 Proprietary schools—that is to say, those schools, the building of which, and, to some extent, the necessary salaries of which, are supplied..by voluntary associations.
1916 Science 8 Dec. 802/2 To state that a medical school is a proprietary one..immediately condemns it with intelligent men.
1973 A. F. Guttmacher in D. F. Walbert & J. D. Butler Abortion, Society & Law 71 In recognition of the financial potential, several proprietary hospitals were converted into abortoria.
2001 S. Rangan & R. Adner in E. Brynjolfsson & G. L. Urban Strategies for E-business Success iii. 64 Finally, a standard might emerge, but not one that is proprietary to any single company.
b. Of a product, esp. a drug or medicine: of which the manufacture or sale is restricted to a particular person or persons; (in later use) spec. marketed under and protected by patent or registered trademark. Cf. generic adj. 1b.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > patent or proprietary
propriatory1776
proprietary1785
proprietory1898
1785 Act 25 Geo. III c. 79 §4 Mixtures, compositions, or preparations..are not, nor hereafter shall be..exposed to sale,..by written or printed papers or hand bills, held out or recommended to the publick by the makers, proprietors, or vendors thereof, as nostrums or proprietary medicines, or as specifics.
1792 Times 24 Feb. 1/2 (advt.) The following are the Retail Prices of his Medicines... Also may be had most of the other Proprietary Medicines in repute.
1882 Amer. Missionary May 157/2 (advt.) Hood's Sarsaparilla, Has met success at home never accorded to any other proprietary medicine.
1895 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 9 May 10/1 (advt.) There are 24,000 registered proprietary Drugs—ask for any of them.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 9/1 [They] are now charging a shilling a pound more for certain well-known proprietary tobacco.
1930 Economist 22 Nov. 957/1 The Economic Council was unable to agree as to whether the undertaking by retailers selling proprietary articles to charge the price fixed by the manufacturers..should be prohibited.
1958 New Statesman 28 June 822/2 Many [doctors]..tend to prescribe a well-advertised proprietary brand because they have no time to consult their list for a cheaper standard preparation.
1995 Australian 7 Mar. (Brisbane ed.) 75/6 A proprietary packaging is just the most recently unsheathed weapon in a war as bitter as any Coca-Cola has fought against arch-rival PepsiCo Inc—the war against private labels.
3. North American. Designating any of various colonies in North America in which rights of government were granted by the British to an individual or group; of or relating to these colonies or their government. Cf. sense A. 2b. Now historical.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [adjective] > owner of North American colony
proprietary1704
proprietory1706
1704 W. Penn in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) App. iv. 79 How much better the Colonies thrive in proprietary hands than under the immediate Government of the Crown.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iv. 169 An Act taxing the Proprietary Estate in common with the Estates of the People.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 16 The backwardness of these two colonies might be ascribed partly to the influence of proprietary power & connections.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/2 The provincial governor was either royal or proprietary, and his authority was imposed on the colony by the Crown directly, or by the proprietors through rights granted by the Crown.
1914 A. C. McLaughlin & A. B. Hart Cycl. Amer. Govt. I. 315/2 The charters of the British colonies in America are usually divided into three groups; corporation, proprietary, and royal.
2002 L. Treese Storm Gathering 51 In 1759 Franklin and his colleagues in the assembly tried to get the king to see the horrors of proprietary instructions and the need to tax proprietary estates.
4. Of or relating to property or proprietorship. Also: characteristic of a proprietor, proprietorial.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > of or relating to property
proprietary1794
1794 T. Law Answer to Observ. Mocurrery Syst. 26 These injurious rights have been taken away, and the proprietary rights remain.
a1832 J. Bentham Anarchical Fallacies in Wks. (1843) II. 503 Property stands second on the list,—proprietary rights are in the number of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ix. 108 The lower rooms were entirely given over to the birds, who walked about them with a proprietary air, as though the place had been built by..themselves.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 112/3 Doubtless, in coming years he will build many birdhouses... There is that pleasant feeling of proprietary interest that he obtains from watching the feathered parents dart in and out.
1989 W. Taubman & J. Taubman Moscow Spring (1990) 63 Another confided that the issue was more proprietary than political.
2003 N. Rush Mortals xxxiv. 615 Ray was feeling heavily proprietary toward his vehicle. It had served him well.
Compounds
proprietary chapel n. see chapel n. 3d.
proprietary company n. (a) an insurance company owned by shareholders rather than by members (cf. mutual company at mutual adj. 6); (b) chiefly Australian = private company n. at private adj.1, adv., and n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > other types of company
incorporation1530
acquisitor1668
private company?1711
private practice1724
public company1730
trading house1760
acquiror1789
in-company1791
public corporation1796
company1800
subsidiary company1823
proprietary company1824
stock-company1827
trust company1827
subsidiary1828
concessionaire1839
commandite1844
statutory company1847
parent company1854
mastership1868
state enterprise1886
Pty.1904
asset class1931
acquirer1950
parent1953
growth company1959
spin-off1959
non-profit1961
shell1964
not-for-profit1969
vehicle1971
spin-out1972
startup1975
greenfield1982
large-cap1982
monoline1984
small cap1984
mid-cap1988
multidomestic1989
dotcom1996
1824 Times 3 June 2/1 The Asylum affords to the afflicted and travelling part of the community a certainty of assurance with a respectable Proprietary Company, at rates of premium consistent with the risks proposed.
1890 Act (Victoria, Austral.) 54 Vict. No. 1074 §354 Every proprietary company shall provide a book to be called the ‘Shareholder's Address Book’.
1896 Companies Act (Victoria, Austral.) §2 ‘Proprietary Company’ means a company..which..(a) has not more than twenty-five members or shareholders; (b) does not receive deposits, except from its members or shareholders..; (c) does not use its title without the addition thereto immediately before the word ‘limited’ of the word ‘proprietary’.
1973 R. N. Purvis Purvis on Proprietary Companies i. 8 A public company must have at least three directors, whereas a proprietary company need have only two.
2004 A. Khorshid Islamic Insurance iii. 70 Many large proprietary companies compete successfully with mutual companies in that they pay benefits to policyholders and still pay dividends to their shareholders.
proprietary name n. a word or phrase over which a person or company has some legal rights, esp. in connection with trade.
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > trade or proprietary name
corporate name1710
firm1744
trade name1890
proprietary name1898
proprietary term1915
brand-name1922
nameplate1972
banner1976
1898 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 16 May 4/2 A thousand and one articles sold under trade marks and proprietary names are not required to contribute to the war revenue.
1908 E. A. Schäfer in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 May 1281 It would..be well to substitute the term ‘adrenin’ for the proprietary name ‘adrenalin’.
1972 Physics Bull. Aug. 489/2 ‘Freon’ is the proprietary name for Du Pont's brand of the fluorinated derivatives of hydrocarbons used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants.
2003 D. R. Mottram Drugs in Sport (ed. 3) 1 When a pharmaceutical company first develops a new drug, it patents the drug under a proprietary name.
proprietary term n. = proprietary name n.
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > trade or proprietary name
corporate name1710
firm1744
trade name1890
proprietary name1898
proprietary term1915
brand-name1922
nameplate1972
banner1976
1915 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 27 May 8/5 They contend that the word ‘cure’ is a proprietary term where it is used as part of the name.
1924 Pocket Oxf. Dict. 932/1 Vaseline... Proprietary term introduced in 1872 by R. A. Chesebrough.
2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland iv. 107 Caneite, a soft building board made from sugarcane fibre. It is a proprietary term.
Derivatives
proˈprietarily adv. in a proprietary capacity; as a proprietor; (also) in the manner of a proprietor, proprietorially.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [adverb] > as owner
proprietarily1586
proprietorially1864
1586 W. Bullokar Pamphlet for Gram. 20 (note) The using of hers, theirs, ours, yours, proprietarily.
1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica vii. 205 Their progeny..enjoyed it [sc. the promised land] proprietarily for many ages.
1900 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg iii. 39 The gold-sack stood on a little table... The bulk of the house gazed at it with a burning interest;..a minority of nineteen couples gazed at it tenderly, lovingly, proprietarily.
1926 Amer. Econ. Rev. 16 232 These organizations were more or less voluntary, more or less private associations of proprietarily independent productive units.
1992 H. E. Fisher Anat. of Love viii. 168 Male and female animals of many species behave very proprietarily toward their mates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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