proprietoryn.adj.

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §3 That all and everie person..shall paye their tythes for thincrease of the saide cattell so goinge in the saide waste or common, to the parson vicar proprietorie porcyonarie owner or other their fermors.

1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands 1206 They neuer had any intent to seize vpon one foot of land belonging to the empire, nor to any prince or lord that were a neuter, to hold or retaine them as proprietories.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 168 If the king be not the proprietorie of the Realme.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 102 The King of Golconda..is proprietory [Fr. proprietaire] of all the Lands in his Kingdom.

1771 New & Compl. Surv. Essex IV. 128 The priory of Hatfield claimed all the tithes within this parish..as belonging to them as rectors and proprietories of this parish church.

1786 Trans. India from Commencement French War vii. 240 The landed proprietory were at one stroke deprived of all influence.

1802 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 267/2 This correspondence gave great uneasiness to the proprietory.

1869 Daily News 30 July It is in the neighbourhood of a rich proprietory and large towns.

1906 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 4 Oct. 4/3 The proprietory of The Sentinel is quite willing to submit the question of veracity to the people of Fort Wayne to judge who speaks the truth.

1930 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 19 Sept. 8/1 (advt.) Let us save you money on proprietories and toilet articles.

1990 Hist. Jrnl. 33 851 The survival of the factory vote..further enhanced the political value of men like McCrum, or Maynard Sinton, the proprietory of Laurelvale.

1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. i. xv. 130 The country of Flanders is nobly diuided into three parts, Teutonicam, Gallicam, Imperatoriam..; affording this reason for Imperatoria, that it neuer acknowledged any superior, but their owne Earles, and therefore had also the attribute of proprietory.

a1643 J. Burroughs Sovereignty Brit. Seas (1651) 105 The King is proprietory Lord of our seas.

1706 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 16 [A bill] for better regulation of charter and proprietory government in America.

1751 J. Holmes Grammarian's Geography i. vi. 123 And two only under Proprietory Government, namely, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, which last King Charles I. gave to George Calvert Lord Baltimore in 1631.

1838 Times 26 Sept. 4/2 The esteem or confidence of the educated and proprietory classes throughout Great Britain.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 615 An exclusive diet of one or other of the proprietory preserved foods.

1922 H. D. Henderson Cotton Control Board 3 The cotton operatives are steeped in the atmosphere of the industry, and take in it an unusual and almost proprietory pride.

1980 C. DeBenedetti Peace Reform Amer. Hist. (1984) i. 9 Several well-placed English Quakers succeeded in the 1670s in securing from the Crown a proprietory colony in the Jerseys.

2004 V. Barnett Revolutionary Russian Econ. iii. 52 Changes to production levels on proprietory farms would be crucial in determining the amount of grain available for wide distribution.