proprietyn.

Brit.

/prəˈprʌɪəti/, U.S.

/p(r)əˈpraɪədi/

Forms: Middle English propryertee, Middle English propryetye, Middle English–1500s propriete, Middle English–1500s propryete, 1500s proprietee, 1500s proprietye, 1500s propryetee, 1500s propryetie, 1500s–1600s proprietie, 1500s– propriety; Scottish pre-1700 propreete, pre-1700 propreitie, pre-1700 propriete, pre-1700 proprietee, pre-1700 proprietie, pre-1700 1700s– propriety.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French proprietie; Latin proprietāt-, proprietās.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman proprietie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French proprieté, propriété (French propriété ) ownership, proprietorship (a1176 in Old French), personal property (1212), particular or individual character of a person or thing (c1265), landed property, lands (a1377) and its etymon classical Latin proprietāt-, proprietās ownership, special property or character, proper or specific meaning of a word, fitness, appropriateness, rightness, property (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also special character of a language, idiom (4th cent.), landed estate (7th cent.), possession of worldly goods, in violation of a vow of poverty (frequently 1234–1443 in British sources), correctness (c1363 in a British source) < proprius proper adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -iety suffix). Compare Old Occitan proprietat (first half of the 13th cent.), Spanish propriedad (a1250), Portuguese propriedade (13th cent.), Italian proprietà (c1225). Compare slightly earlier property n.

The quality of being proper, or that which is proper (in various senses of the adjective).

†1. Particular or individual character, nature, or disposition; individuality, essence, idiosyncrasy; (also occasionally) properly characteristic state or condition. Cf. property n. 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]

heartOE

erda1000

moodOE

i-mindOE

i-cundeOE

costc1175

lundc1175

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the manner ofc1300

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talentc1330

attemperancec1374

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propertyc1390

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gentlenessa1400

proprietya1400

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conceitc1425

affecta1460

ingeny1477

engine1488

stomach?1510

mind?a1513

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affection1534

vein1536

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natural1564

facultyc1565

concept1566

frame1567

temperature1583

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character1600

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spirits1604

dispose1609

selfness1611

disposure1613

composurea1616

racea1616

tempera1616

crasisc1616

directiona1639

grain1641

turn1647

complexure1648

genie1653

make1674

personality1710

tonea1751

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liver1800

make-up1821

temperament1821

naturalness1850

selfhood1854

Wesen1854

naturel1856

sit1857

fibre1864

character structure1873

mentality1895

mindset1909

psyche1910

where it's (he's, she's) at1967

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 345 (MED) Grinde it & make þerof poudre..for off his owne propriete it engendriþ fleisch, boþe bi him-silf & also whanne it is medlid wiþ oþere þingis.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxiv. 94 I shall telle yow thensample of the lyon & of his propryete.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 28 As sais the maister of proprieteis of bestis, A scorpioun is as a worme of the erde.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) v. 26 To paynt ande discriue the origyne ande propriete of the varld.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 169 Silence that dreadfull bell, it frights the Isle From her propriety .

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 50 It holds a strange and lawlesse propriety from all other works of God under heaven.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed v. 511 We are presented with three Particulars: First, the Action itself,..‘he rose again’. Secondly, The verity, reality, and propriety of that Resurrection, ‘he rose from the dead’.

?1760 Apol. Athanasian Creed i. 9 There are many things whose fitness we could never previously have discovered, many whose propriety we cannot still fully explain.

1781 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. I. iv. 265 Whosoever worshippeth Nature instead of God, or in preference to God, and in consequence of such Worship maketh himself, and his own proprium, the Center and Fountain of his Thoughts. [Note] By Proprium, as here applied to Man, is meant his own Propriety, or all that he is of himself, when separated from Divine Influence.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 177 This propriety, or characteristic in the individual, which he receives from a Divine source, is a sacred deposit with him.

†2. A quality or attribute, esp. an essential or distinctive one; a peculiarity, a characteristic; = property n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of a person

propertya1398

proprietya1400

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute

i-cundeOE

kindOE

thingOE

quality1340

virtue1340

assizea1375

propertyc1390

principlea1398

conditionc1460

faculty1490

predicatea1513

epitheton1547

passion1570

propriety1584

affection1588

attribute1603

qualification1616

appropriate1618

intimacy1641

bedighting1674

belonger1674

cleaver1674

interiority1701

internal property1751

predicable1785

coloration1799

internality1839

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 279 (MED) Þou schalt make him a clisterie..in which schulen be medicyns þat haue propriete for to breke þe stoon.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 59 He was bathe honest, and honourable,..and full of all gude proprieteis.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon ii. ccxxvi. sig. P. iv The wyne ther of made confycte of other wynes as if aforsayde hath many maruaylous good propryetees for it protyteth moche for all colde sekenesses.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxxiii. 454 Salomon..had the full and perfect knowlege of all their proprieties.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 718 A secret propriety of this ground.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. i. 4 All the proprieties of God are infinite, as they are immanent in himselfe.

1680 R. Hooke Let. 17 Jan. in I. Newton Corr. (1960) II. 313 It now remaines to know the proprietys of a curve line made by a centrall attractive power which makes the velocitys of Descent from the tangent Line.

1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 55 Impatience is as it were a Propriety of Power.

1797 W. Wilberforce Relig. Syst. Professed Christians iv. §iii. 239 Violating the proprieties of his assumed character.

1802 Communications Husbandry III. i. xvii. 343 An unknown grass land..the proprieties of which could only be learnt from its outward vegetation.

1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 13 Proprieties of the incarnation.

3. A piece of land owned by or granted to someone; a landed property or estate; = property n. 3c. Now rare and historical.Formerly occasionally also more generally:† something owned; a person's property or goods; a possession; = property n. 3b (obsolete).In later use chiefly with reference to the British colonies in North America; cf. proprietary n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun]

goodeOE

auchtOE

havingc1350

facultya1382

substancea1382

propertya1393

haviourc1400

suffisantee1436

aversc1440

propriety1442

livinga1450

goodess1523

gear1535

prog1727

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > privately or individually owned land

severalc1460

scope1569

severalty1570

propriety1661

proprietorship1788

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned by proprietor of colony

propriety1705

1442 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 64 All landis..or ony part of thaim..alswele tenandreis as propreeteis.

?1446 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 250 To propriete of James of Gordoun land callit Canȝ Park.

1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 70 How þai..yitt posseidis that peoples proprietie.

1635 in Watertown (Mass.) Rec. I. i. 1 Whoever being an Inhabitant in the Towne shall receive any person..upon their propriety..shall maintain the said persons at their owne charges.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 365 It is the Hedge..which hinders us from breaking into other mens propriety.

a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. Ephes. v. 32–33 in Wks. (1831) I. 327 So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord.

?1690 Vindic. New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 42 The Lands of Widdows and Orphans and other peoples proprieties.

1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia i. iv. 66 The splitting the Colony into Proprieties, contrary to the original Charters.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 76 in Wks. (1721) II. 'Tis thy Propriety, and not my own.

1724 R. Bradley Husbandry & Gardening 133 The Persons whose Propriety that Land is, will certainly find their Advantage by it.

1790 Lunenburg (Mass.) Proprietor's Rec. 304 Voted to Chuse a man to lay the Case of this Propriety before Some Sutable person.

1889 Athenæum 3 Aug. 157/1 The lately established propriety of Nova Scotia was to be ceded to that power [sc. France].

1894 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 51/1 Early in 1774 he removed to Lenox, Mass., was at once elected clerk of that ‘Propriety’, and was sent as its delegate to the General Court of the Colony.

1939 C. McLaughlin Green Holyoke, Massachusetts: Case Hist. 4 In 1685 with the establishment of the Dominion of New England..Springfield voted to lay the commons out into proprieties and to allot individual holdings.

a. The fact of owning something, or of being owned by someone; right of possession or use; ownership, proprietorship; = property n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > owning > [noun]

auchteOE

owningOE

propertya1393

propriety1486

ownage1576

the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > fact of being owned

propertya1393

propriety1486

owedness1607

1486 in W. Campbell Materials for Hist. Reign Henry VII (1873) I. 297 An othre cope, with a cover gilt,..the propriete wherof rightfully belongith to oure..moder, the countesse of Richemond & Derby.

1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus f. lxxix For Kynges lordes and gentle men do not giue to their fermors the proprietie or inheritaunce of their landes, but onely for certein rentes and seruices do let their grounde out by lease.

1581–90 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 412 They..can challenge no more proprietie in that grownde, then may euery seuerall Colledge of that Vniuersitie.

1635 in W. Foster Court Minutes E. India Company (1907) 71 The generality have ‘a propriety’ therein and no decision can be made without their consent.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Hhhh^v The people..live like beasts, without propriety so much as in their wives or children.

1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life iv. 40 When men give they transfer propriety to another.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. iv. 297 Every Freeman hath such a full and absolute Propriety in his Goods, That no Taxes..legally can be imposed upon them, without their own Consent.

1750 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 192 Their udals, at this day, are not transmitted like other lands, but with the..compleat propriety and demesne of the subject.

1774 T. Jefferson Rights of Brit. Amer. in Writings (1984) 122 Carolina was in the year 1663 granted by letters patent of majesty, king Charles II. in the 15th year of his reign, in propriety, unto the right honourable Edward earl of Clarendon.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xi. 169 The clergy themselves had never expected that their estates would revert to them in full propriety.

1918 B. Willis ‘Rose Bk.’ of Chile 3 Peru ceded to Chile absolute propriety over the territory of Tarapaca.

1971 E. Norman Hist. Mod. Ireland viii. 211 Both the Conservatives and the Liberals were moving towards peasant propriety as the solution of the land question.

2000 D. Ellis Women of Afghan War 127 The men in the community became furious with what they saw as a direct threat to their authority and their propriety over their women.

†b. spec. Possession of worldly goods, in violation of a vow of poverty; (also) excessive concern with worldly possessions. Cf. proprietary n. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worldliness

worldlishipa1425

worldliness?c1430

worldlihoodc1443

propriety?1504

earthiness1597

worldly-mindedness1621

mundanity1647

terrenity1649

mundaneness1727

materialism1771

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xlii. 230 Stande thou..without all propryete, & thou shalt alway wyn.

1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. E.ij There is dyuers abusynges pertyculerly in all estates, as in the estate of the chirche where as symony regneth, in relygyon propryete and inobedyence.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. cxvi^v What is thys to the purpose of prestes vowes? If he had not (ye saye) put himselfe out of propriete of his goodes.

†c. Medicine. The occurrence of pain or other symptoms or signs of a disease in the organ or part in which the disease originates. Cf. idiopathy n. 1a, sympathy n. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > origin in or reduction to focal part

propriety1615

focalization1906

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 190 The stone of the Kidneyes is knowne or discerned from that of the bladder by The propriety of the paine, by the scituation, and by the dulnesse.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. i. 146 The Breath is hindered by divers Causes, either by sympathy or propriety of parts. The hinderance of breathing by propriety, called Idiopathica, comes from the Lungs distempered.

1657 Physical Dict. (at cited word) A pain by propriety is when the cause of the pain is in the part pained, as when the head-ach comes from the humors in the head it's called a pain by propriety; when it proceeds of vapors sent up from the stomach or any other part it's called head-ach by consent or sympathy.

†d. The fact of belonging or relating specially to a particular thing or person; peculiarity, particularity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > fact of belonging to a particular thing or person

peculiarness1573

propriety1625

properness1630

exclusiveness1727

exclusivism1834

exclusivity1926

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 12 The Doctor of the Gentiles [sc. St Paul] (the Propriety of whose Vocation, drew him to haue a speciall care of those without) saith [etc.].

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 69 The sweating sicknesse (call'd for the propriety by which it seized on the English Nation cheifely Sudor Anglicus).

a. Correctness or purity of diction or language. Formerly also: †an instance of this; a property or special characteristic of a language; an idiom (obsolete). Cf. property n. 2. Now rare or merged in sense 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > [noun] > distinctive character of a language

propriety1550

idiom1573

idiotism1605

idiomacy1813

idiomaticism1825

feeling1875

idiomaticity1887

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > correctness

propriety1550

orthologya1620

correctness1684

purism1777

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Ciii Proprietie, is when in wryting and pronunciacion ther be no fautes committed, but thynges done as they shulde be.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31 In..Cæs. Commentaries..is seene, the vnspotted proprietie of the Latin tong.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 123 The Punicke tongue was but a kinde of seuerall proprietie of the Hebrew.

1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 5 A word, which according to the Idiom and propriety of the language wherein he spake, may be translated liues.

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. iv. §31 'Tis pity the Propriety of the Hebrew Tongue had not used Fathers of Men, instead of Children of Men.

1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 140 The neglect of acquainting our youth..with the Proprieties and Beauties of their Mother Tongue.

1746 (title) An Exmoor scolding; in the propriety and decency of Exmoor language.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. Postscr. 154 However, the Latin stile of writing retained its propriety and other excellencies tolerably well, till the monks got possession of it, and brought it down to a jargon.

1988 Paragraph 11 235 Propriety is determined not necessarily by reference to a specific register, but by the contextual solidarity of the words within the text.

†b. Strictness of meaning, literalness; the proper, strict, or literal sense of a word. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun]

letter1340

propertya1387

lecturec1475

propriety1648

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. i. 145 In its stricture and propriety, it is onely appliable unto fresh inventions.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 378 God, therefore, cast..a sleep upon Adam: the Propriety is, and He made a sleep fall.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Lactantius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 451 If we add that the propriety of this word Jupiter, does not express a Divine, but only a Humane force.

1686 W. Clagett Paraphr. 6th Chapter St. John 27 For if the former Clause is to be understood in that same strictness and propriety of words with the latter Clause, then the Flesh of Christ was to become Bread properly.

6. Appropriateness to circumstances or conditions; suitability, aptness, fitness; conformity with what is required by a rule, principle, etc.; rightness, correctness, accuracy.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun]

foȝa1250

mensea1525

properness1531

justice?1551

decentness1561

dueness1576

conveniency1583

fitness1597

propriety1612

fittingness1653

convenience1677

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety

righteousnessOE

duea1425

properness1531

decency1567

dueness1576

decorum1586

fitness1597

orthotes1605

propriety1612

befittingnessa1645

beseemlinessa1645

fittingness1653

becomeness1656

beseemingness1656

becomingness1657

condecency1662

competibleness1667

decence1678

1612 J. Webster White Divel v. i. 69 He could not have invented his own ruin with more propriety.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (vii. Annot.) 40/2 But that was in the businesse of Absalom,..to which this Psalm hath no propriety.

1729 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi I shall not..justifie the Propriety of Preaching..Discourses so abstruse as some of these are.

1774 Considerations Legislative Authority Brit. Parl. 15 Can members, whom the Americans do not elect..be stiled, with any propriety, the magistrates of the Americans?

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 223 They..appointed a committee to consider the propriety of impeaching Arlington.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) II. App. 609 In some manuscripts..the propriety of the title is formally disputed.

1903 B. Matthews Devel. of Drama (1914) vi. 196 They wore as rich apparel as they could get, with no thought of its propriety to the time and place of the play itself.

1958 Ethics 68 77 ‘The problem of evil’..might, with more propriety, be labeled ‘the problem of faith and conscience’.

1989 Federal Reporter (1990) 2nd Ser. 806 1413/2 Questions of the propriety or legality of the bankruptcy court confirmation order are indeed properly addressable on direct appeal.

a. Conformity to accepted standards of behaviour or morals, esp. with regard to good manners or polite usage; seemliness, decorousness, decency; (observance of) convention. to play propriety: to ensure correct behaviour by acting as a chaperone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety

seemlihead?a1366

honestya1398

comeliness1440

seemlihoodc1440

seemlityc1440

semblessea1500

seemliness1548

decentness1561

decorum?1571

handsomeness1595

civility1612

decency1682

exactness1683

elegance1686

propriety1753

thing1791

bienseancea1797

convenances1831

decorousness1834

the becoming1842

correctnessa1859

good (also bad) form1868

properness1873

correctitude1893

the done thing1917

society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [noun]

pudicity1567

pudor1623

modesty1632

decency1639

delicacy1712

propriety1753

properness1873

pudeur1876

1753 W. Hird Remarks Pestilence & Pestilential Dis. 83 In this propriety of conduct, this combination of judicious inquiry, with well-conducted experience, consists the essential and discriminating character of a wise physician.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 308 Propriety's cold cautious rules Warm Fervour may o'erlook.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. ii.81 Miss Leech..curls the poodles, plays propriety when I have men parties, and rides backward in the barouche.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. xi. 260 Her taste for decency of demeanour and propriety of life.

1877 V. Lush Jrnl. 13 Feb. (1975) 187 I invited a few of the Choir here after practice, with Mrs Scott and Mrs Lloyd to play propriety and we had a very jolly evening.

1925 I. Smith Marriage in Ceylon 137 Angela..had felt it would not be ‘the thing’ to accept hospitality of the man who in a few days' time would be her husband without someone to ‘play propriety’.

1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/6 Songs in the vernacular of dubious propriety.

1986 ‘J. Gash’ Tartan Sell xi. 75 For the sake of propriety, off she went to kirk.

2002 H. Jacobson Who's Sorry Now? (2003) i. iv. 92 Her mother and her grandmother were countrywomen of unassailable propriety, the wives of successful public men.

b. the proprieties: the things that are considered proper; the details or rules of conventionally correct or proper conduct.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of

decorum1603

convenientsa1657

decencies1667

the proprieties1767

respectabilities1809

the conventionalities1854

1767 A. Murphy School for Guardians v. 73 To break through all the proprieties of conduct.

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. xcvii. 232 Perhaps it is proper. I cannot say, for indeed I do not very well understand many of what are called the proprieties of custom.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 51 Happily ignorant of, the sophistications of theories, and the proprieties of composition.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 115 The keeping of the proprieties is as indispensable as clean linen.

1883 M. E. Kennard Right Sort xxiv I doubt very much if Mary, who is so strong on the proprieties, will consider you and Mr. McGrath sufficient chaperones.

?1942 A. L. Rowse Diary Mar. (2003) 123 The Duke..whipped through like a whippet, while Dr Munz held the door open for me, beaming that the proprieties had been observed.

1992 A. McConnell Quantum Leap vii. 97 He..realized that he was dealing with a true stickler for the proprieties, and knocked in what he hoped was an acceptably humble manner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	propriety
释义	proprietyn. Brit. /prəˈprʌɪəti/, U.S. /p(r)əˈpraɪədi/ Forms: Middle English propryertee, Middle English propryetye, Middle English–1500s propriete, Middle English–1500s propryete, 1500s proprietee, 1500s proprietye, 1500s propryetee, 1500s propryetie, 1500s–1600s proprietie, 1500s– propriety; Scottish pre-1700 propreete, pre-1700 propreitie, pre-1700 propriete, pre-1700 proprietee, pre-1700 proprietie, pre-1700 1700s– propriety. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French proprietie; Latin proprietāt-, proprietās. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman proprietie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French proprieté, propriété (French propriété ) ownership, proprietorship (a1176 in Old French), personal property (1212), particular or individual character of a person or thing (c1265), landed property, lands (a1377) and its etymon classical Latin proprietāt-, proprietās ownership, special property or character, proper or specific meaning of a word, fitness, appropriateness, rightness, property (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also special character of a language, idiom (4th cent.), landed estate (7th cent.), possession of worldly goods, in violation of a vow of poverty (frequently 1234–1443 in British sources), correctness (c1363 in a British source) < proprius proper adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -iety suffix). Compare Old Occitan proprietat (first half of the 13th cent.), Spanish propriedad (a1250), Portuguese propriedade (13th cent.), Italian proprietà (c1225). Compare slightly earlier property n. The quality of being proper, or that which is proper (in various senses of the adjective). †1. Particular or individual character, nature, or disposition; individuality, essence, idiosyncrasy; (also occasionally) properly characteristic state or condition. Cf. property n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 345 (MED) Grinde it & make þerof poudre..for off his owne propriete it engendriþ fleisch, boþe bi him-silf & also whanne it is medlid wiþ oþere þingis. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxiv. 94 I shall telle yow thensample of the lyon & of his propryete. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 28 As sais the maister of proprieteis of bestis, A scorpioun is as a worme of the erde. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) v. 26 To paynt ande discriue the origyne ande propriete of the varld. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 169 Silence that dreadfull bell, it frights the Isle From her propriety . View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 50 It holds a strange and lawlesse propriety from all other works of God under heaven. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed v. 511 We are presented with three Particulars: First, the Action itself,..‘he rose again’. Secondly, The verity, reality, and propriety of that Resurrection, ‘he rose from the dead’. ?1760 Apol. Athanasian Creed i. 9 There are many things whose fitness we could never previously have discovered, many whose propriety we cannot still fully explain. 1781 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. I. iv. 265 Whosoever worshippeth Nature instead of God, or in preference to God, and in consequence of such Worship maketh himself, and his own proprium, the Center and Fountain of his Thoughts. [Note] By Proprium, as here applied to Man, is meant his own Propriety, or all that he is of himself, when separated from Divine Influence. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 177 This propriety, or characteristic in the individual, which he receives from a Divine source, is a sacred deposit with him. †2. A quality or attribute, esp. an essential or distinctive one; a peculiarity, a characteristic; = property n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of a person propertya1398 proprietya1400 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute i-cundeOE kindOE thingOE quality1340 virtue1340 assizea1375 propertyc1390 principlea1398 conditionc1460 faculty1490 predicatea1513 epitheton1547 passion1570 propriety1584 affection1588 attribute1603 qualification1616 appropriate1618 intimacy1641 bedighting1674 belonger1674 cleaver1674 interiority1701 internal property1751 predicable1785 coloration1799 internality1839 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 279 (MED) Þou schalt make him a clisterie..in which schulen be medicyns þat haue propriete for to breke þe stoon. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 59 He was bathe honest, and honourable,..and full of all gude proprieteis. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon ii. ccxxvi. sig. P. iv The wyne ther of made confycte of other wynes as if aforsayde hath many maruaylous good propryetees for it protyteth moche for all colde sekenesses. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxxiii. 454 Salomon..had the full and perfect knowlege of all their proprieties. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 718 A secret propriety of this ground. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. i. 4 All the proprieties of God are infinite, as they are immanent in himselfe. 1680 R. Hooke Let. 17 Jan. in I. Newton Corr. (1960) II. 313 It now remaines to know the proprietys of a curve line made by a centrall attractive power which makes the velocitys of Descent from the tangent Line. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 55 Impatience is as it were a Propriety of Power. 1797 W. Wilberforce Relig. Syst. Professed Christians iv. §iii. 239 Violating the proprieties of his assumed character. 1802 Communications Husbandry III. i. xvii. 343 An unknown grass land..the proprieties of which could only be learnt from its outward vegetation. 1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 13 Proprieties of the incarnation. 3. A piece of land owned by or granted to someone; a landed property or estate; = property n. 3c. Now rare and historical.Formerly occasionally also more generally:† something owned; a person's property or goods; a possession; = property n. 3b (obsolete).In later use chiefly with reference to the British colonies in North America; cf. proprietary n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] goodeOE auchtOE havingc1350 facultya1382 substancea1382 propertya1393 haviourc1400 suffisantee1436 aversc1440 propriety1442 livinga1450 goodess1523 gear1535 prog1727 the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > privately or individually owned land severalc1460 scope1569 severalty1570 propriety1661 proprietorship1788 the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned by proprietor of colony propriety1705 1442 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 64 All landis..or ony part of thaim..alswele tenandreis as propreeteis. ?1446 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 250 To propriete of James of Gordoun land callit Canȝ Park. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 70 How þai..yitt posseidis that peoples proprietie. 1635 in Watertown (Mass.) Rec. I. i. 1 Whoever being an Inhabitant in the Towne shall receive any person..upon their propriety..shall maintain the said persons at their owne charges. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 365 It is the Hedge..which hinders us from breaking into other mens propriety. a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. Ephes. v. 32–33 in Wks. (1831) I. 327 So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord. ?1690 Vindic. New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 42 The Lands of Widdows and Orphans and other peoples proprieties. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia i. iv. 66 The splitting the Colony into Proprieties, contrary to the original Charters. a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 76 in Wks. (1721) II. 'Tis thy Propriety, and not my own. 1724 R. Bradley Husbandry & Gardening 133 The Persons whose Propriety that Land is, will certainly find their Advantage by it. 1790 Lunenburg (Mass.) Proprietor's Rec. 304 Voted to Chuse a man to lay the Case of this Propriety before Some Sutable person. 1889 Athenæum 3 Aug. 157/1 The lately established propriety of Nova Scotia was to be ceded to that power [sc. France]. 1894 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 51/1 Early in 1774 he removed to Lenox, Mass., was at once elected clerk of that ‘Propriety’, and was sent as its delegate to the General Court of the Colony. 1939 C. McLaughlin Green Holyoke, Massachusetts: Case Hist. 4 In 1685 with the establishment of the Dominion of New England..Springfield voted to lay the commons out into proprieties and to allot individual holdings. 4. a. The fact of owning something, or of being owned by someone; right of possession or use; ownership, proprietorship; = property n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [noun] auchteOE owningOE propertya1393 propriety1486 ownage1576 the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > fact of being owned propertya1393 propriety1486 owedness1607 1486 in W. Campbell Materials for Hist. Reign Henry VII (1873) I. 297 An othre cope, with a cover gilt,..the propriete wherof rightfully belongith to oure..moder, the countesse of Richemond & Derby. 1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus f. lxxix For Kynges lordes and gentle men do not giue to their fermors the proprietie or inheritaunce of their landes, but onely for certein rentes and seruices do let their grounde out by lease. 1581–90 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 412 They..can challenge no more proprietie in that grownde, then may euery seuerall Colledge of that Vniuersitie. 1635 in W. Foster Court Minutes E. India Company (1907) 71 The generality have ‘a propriety’ therein and no decision can be made without their consent. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Hhhh^v The people..live like beasts, without propriety so much as in their wives or children. 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life iv. 40 When men give they transfer propriety to another. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. iv. 297 Every Freeman hath such a full and absolute Propriety in his Goods, That no Taxes..legally can be imposed upon them, without their own Consent. 1750 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 192 Their udals, at this day, are not transmitted like other lands, but with the..compleat propriety and demesne of the subject. 1774 T. Jefferson Rights of Brit. Amer. in Writings (1984) 122 Carolina was in the year 1663 granted by letters patent of majesty, king Charles II. in the 15th year of his reign, in propriety, unto the right honourable Edward earl of Clarendon. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xi. 169 The clergy themselves had never expected that their estates would revert to them in full propriety. 1918 B. Willis ‘Rose Bk.’ of Chile 3 Peru ceded to Chile absolute propriety over the territory of Tarapaca. 1971 E. Norman Hist. Mod. Ireland viii. 211 Both the Conservatives and the Liberals were moving towards peasant propriety as the solution of the land question. 2000 D. Ellis Women of Afghan War 127 The men in the community became furious with what they saw as a direct threat to their authority and their propriety over their women. †b. spec. Possession of worldly goods, in violation of a vow of poverty; (also) excessive concern with worldly possessions. Cf. proprietary n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worldliness worldlishipa1425 worldliness?c1430 worldlihoodc1443 propriety?1504 earthiness1597 worldly-mindedness1621 mundanity1647 terrenity1649 mundaneness1727 materialism1771 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xlii. 230 Stande thou..without all propryete, & thou shalt alway wyn. 1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. E.ij There is dyuers abusynges pertyculerly in all estates, as in the estate of the chirche where as symony regneth, in relygyon propryete and inobedyence. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. cxvi^v What is thys to the purpose of prestes vowes? If he had not (ye saye) put himselfe out of propriete of his goodes. †c. Medicine. The occurrence of pain or other symptoms or signs of a disease in the organ or part in which the disease originates. Cf. idiopathy n. 1a, sympathy n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > origin in or reduction to focal part propriety1615 focalization1906 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 190 The stone of the Kidneyes is knowne or discerned from that of the bladder by The propriety of the paine, by the scituation, and by the dulnesse. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. i. 146 The Breath is hindered by divers Causes, either by sympathy or propriety of parts. The hinderance of breathing by propriety, called Idiopathica, comes from the Lungs distempered. 1657 Physical Dict. (at cited word) A pain by propriety is when the cause of the pain is in the part pained, as when the head-ach comes from the humors in the head it's called a pain by propriety; when it proceeds of vapors sent up from the stomach or any other part it's called head-ach by consent or sympathy. †d. The fact of belonging or relating specially to a particular thing or person; peculiarity, particularity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [noun] > quality of being particular or not general > fact of belonging to a particular thing or person peculiarness1573 propriety1625 properness1630 exclusiveness1727 exclusivism1834 exclusivity1926 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 12 The Doctor of the Gentiles [sc. St Paul] (the Propriety of whose Vocation, drew him to haue a speciall care of those without) saith [etc.]. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 69 The sweating sicknesse (call'd for the propriety by which it seized on the English Nation cheifely Sudor Anglicus). 5. a. Correctness or purity of diction or language. Formerly also: †an instance of this; a property or special characteristic of a language; an idiom (obsolete). Cf. property n. 2. Now rare or merged in sense 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > distinctive character of a language propriety1550 idiom1573 idiotism1605 idiomacy1813 idiomaticism1825 feeling1875 idiomaticity1887 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > correctness propriety1550 orthologya1620 correctness1684 purism1777 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Ciii Proprietie, is when in wryting and pronunciacion ther be no fautes committed, but thynges done as they shulde be. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31 In..Cæs. Commentaries..is seene, the vnspotted proprietie of the Latin tong. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 123 The Punicke tongue was but a kinde of seuerall proprietie of the Hebrew. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 5 A word, which according to the Idiom and propriety of the language wherein he spake, may be translated liues. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. iv. §31 'Tis pity the Propriety of the Hebrew Tongue had not used Fathers of Men, instead of Children of Men. 1739 Hist. Wks. Learned I. 140 The neglect of acquainting our youth..with the Proprieties and Beauties of their Mother Tongue. 1746 (title) An Exmoor scolding; in the propriety and decency of Exmoor language. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. Postscr. 154 However, the Latin stile of writing retained its propriety and other excellencies tolerably well, till the monks got possession of it, and brought it down to a jargon. 1988 Paragraph 11 235 Propriety is determined not necessarily by reference to a specific register, but by the contextual solidarity of the words within the text. †b. Strictness of meaning, literalness; the proper, strict, or literal sense of a word. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun] letter1340 propertya1387 lecturec1475 propriety1648 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. i. 145 In its stricture and propriety, it is onely appliable unto fresh inventions. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 378 God, therefore, cast..a sleep upon Adam: the Propriety is, and He made a sleep fall. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Lactantius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 451 If we add that the propriety of this word Jupiter, does not express a Divine, but only a Humane force. 1686 W. Clagett Paraphr. 6th Chapter St. John 27 For if the former Clause is to be understood in that same strictness and propriety of words with the latter Clause, then the Flesh of Christ was to become Bread properly. 6. Appropriateness to circumstances or conditions; suitability, aptness, fitness; conformity with what is required by a rule, principle, etc.; rightness, correctness, accuracy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] foȝa1250 mensea1525 properness1531 justice?1551 decentness1561 dueness1576 conveniency1583 fitness1597 propriety1612 fittingness1653 convenience1677 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > fittingness or propriety righteousnessOE duea1425 properness1531 decency1567 dueness1576 decorum1586 fitness1597 orthotes1605 propriety1612 befittingnessa1645 beseemlinessa1645 fittingness1653 becomeness1656 beseemingness1656 becomingness1657 condecency1662 competibleness1667 decence1678 1612 J. Webster White Divel v. i. 69 He could not have invented his own ruin with more propriety. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (vii. Annot.) 40/2 But that was in the businesse of Absalom,..to which this Psalm hath no propriety. 1729 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi I shall not..justifie the Propriety of Preaching..Discourses so abstruse as some of these are. 1774 Considerations Legislative Authority Brit. Parl. 15 Can members, whom the Americans do not elect..be stiled, with any propriety, the magistrates of the Americans? 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 223 They..appointed a committee to consider the propriety of impeaching Arlington. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) II. App. 609 In some manuscripts..the propriety of the title is formally disputed. 1903 B. Matthews Devel. of Drama (1914) vi. 196 They wore as rich apparel as they could get, with no thought of its propriety to the time and place of the play itself. 1958 Ethics 68 77 ‘The problem of evil’..might, with more propriety, be labeled ‘the problem of faith and conscience’. 1989 Federal Reporter (1990) 2nd Ser. 806 1413/2 Questions of the propriety or legality of the bankruptcy court confirmation order are indeed properly addressable on direct appeal. 7. a. Conformity to accepted standards of behaviour or morals, esp. with regard to good manners or polite usage; seemliness, decorousness, decency; (observance of) convention. to play propriety: to ensure correct behaviour by acting as a chaperone. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety seemlihead?a1366 honestya1398 comeliness1440 seemlihoodc1440 seemlityc1440 semblessea1500 seemliness1548 decentness1561 decorum?1571 handsomeness1595 civility1612 decency1682 exactness1683 elegance1686 propriety1753 thing1791 bienseancea1797 convenances1831 decorousness1834 the becoming1842 correctnessa1859 good (also bad) form1868 properness1873 correctitude1893 the done thing1917 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [noun] pudicity1567 pudor1623 modesty1632 decency1639 delicacy1712 propriety1753 properness1873 pudeur1876 1753 W. Hird Remarks Pestilence & Pestilential Dis. 83 In this propriety of conduct, this combination of judicious inquiry, with well-conducted experience, consists the essential and discriminating character of a wise physician. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 308 Propriety's cold cautious rules Warm Fervour may o'erlook. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. ii.81 Miss Leech..curls the poodles, plays propriety when I have men parties, and rides backward in the barouche. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. xi. 260 Her taste for decency of demeanour and propriety of life. 1877 V. Lush Jrnl. 13 Feb. (1975) 187 I invited a few of the Choir here after practice, with Mrs Scott and Mrs Lloyd to play propriety and we had a very jolly evening. 1925 I. Smith Marriage in Ceylon 137 Angela..had felt it would not be ‘the thing’ to accept hospitality of the man who in a few days' time would be her husband without someone to ‘play propriety’. 1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/6 Songs in the vernacular of dubious propriety. 1986 ‘J. Gash’ Tartan Sell xi. 75 For the sake of propriety, off she went to kirk. 2002 H. Jacobson Who's Sorry Now? (2003) i. iv. 92 Her mother and her grandmother were countrywomen of unassailable propriety, the wives of successful public men. b. the proprieties: the things that are considered proper; the details or rules of conventionally correct or proper conduct. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > an) act(s) or requirement(s) of decorum1603 convenientsa1657 decencies1667 the proprieties1767 respectabilities1809 the conventionalities1854 1767 A. Murphy School for Guardians v. 73 To break through all the proprieties of conduct. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. xcvii. 232 Perhaps it is proper. I cannot say, for indeed I do not very well understand many of what are called the proprieties of custom. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 51 Happily ignorant of, the sophistications of theories, and the proprieties of composition. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 115 The keeping of the proprieties is as indispensable as clean linen. 1883 M. E. Kennard Right Sort xxiv I doubt very much if Mary, who is so strong on the proprieties, will consider you and Mr. McGrath sufficient chaperones. ?1942 A. L. Rowse Diary Mar. (2003) 123 The Duke..whipped through like a whippet, while Dr Munz held the door open for me, beaming that the proprieties had been observed. 1992 A. McConnell Quantum Leap vii. 97 He..realized that he was dealing with a true stickler for the proprieties, and knocked in what he hoped was an acceptably humble manner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400
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