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propertyn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French properté, proprieté. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman properté, propertee, propertie, propretee, proprité, Anglo-Norman and Middle French propreté (c1225 in Old French, also as propritei ), variants (probably after propre proper adj.) of proprieté propriety n. Compare Middle French, French propreté decent dress and manners (1538), neatness (1671) < propre proper adj. + -té -ty suffix1. 1. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxi. 47 His breþeren..maden a hyllock..þe whyche Laban clepide a hyllock of wytnes & Iacob a hypyll of wytnessing, eyþer after þe properte [L. proprietatem] of his tonge. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) 3973 Who-so kan knowe þe properte, Enuyus man may lyknyd be To þe Iawnes. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) l. 415 The propretee of a fool is this, he troweth lightly harm of euery wight and lightly troweth alle bountee in hym self. a1500 (?c1414) 21 Thowȝ I thi mercy deserve nowȝt, Ȝyt it is thi propirte, To spare hem that mekely sowȝt. c1540 (?a1400) 626 As the Roose in his Radness is Richest of floures..So passis þi propurty perte wemen all. 1544 Letanie in sig. Ciii O God, whose nature & propertie is euer to haue mercy, and to forgyue. 1568 T. Hill (rev. ed.) ii. xxii. f. 87v The Rue of propertie, doth dryue away al venemous beastes & wormes. 1651 R. Baxter 10 It is the property of error to contradict it self. 1703 W. Burkitt Mark vi. 6 It is the Property and Practice of prophane Men, to take occasion..to despise their Persons, and to reject their Doctrine. b. An attribute, characteristic, or quality. In earlier use sometimes: a distinctive, essential, or special quality; a peculiarity. the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] c1390 G. Chaucer 640 Euery fals lyuynge hath his propretee in hym self, that he that wole anoye another man, he anoyeth first hym self. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 26 Þe wit of gropinge haþ þis propirte [L. hoc..proprium est] þat he is in alle þe parties of þe body out take heer & lockes & nailles. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 35 And as there is nothinge so evill but that it hath some good propirte, the mone yeueth chaste condicion. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 120 in (1981) 8 This iolie iasp hes properteis seuin: The first, of cullour it is meruelous. 1526 W. Bonde i. sig. Aiiiiv The philosophers had such..desyre to knowe the natures and properties of thynges. 1551 W. Turner sig. A iv In pontike wormwode is there no smalle astringent propertie. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio I. iii. ix. f. 109v The Ring he made most precious and deere account of, and neuer tooke it off from his finger, in regard of an especial vertue and property, which he well knew to be remaining in it. 1664 H. Power i. 35 Though heat hath that killing property, yet it seems that cold hath not. 1713 G. Berkeley i. 34 Again, have you not acknowledged that no real inherent Property of any Object can be changed, without some Change in the thing itself? 1777 J. Priestley (1782) I. xix. 218 Truth is only a property, and no substance whatever. 1832 D. Brewster i. 5 The property of lenses and mirrors to form erect and inverted images of objects. 1868 J. N. Lockyer (1879) vii. xli. 241 It is one of the properties of a triangle that the three interior angles taken together are equal to two right angles. 1911 E. Rutherford in 30 662/2 Chemical properties very similar to those of barium. 1953 N. Tinbergen xvii. 144 Various properties of the eggs, such as colour, or shape. 1988 P. Gay i. 44 Fleischl-Marxow..was if anything more enthusiastic about the curative properties of cocaine than Freud himself. 2005 (Nexis) 19 June 25 The rescue mask.., much loved thanks to its amazing properties—it will boost the complexion and soothe tired skin. the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of a person the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > of God a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 12 By help of god to speke of þe propirtees [L. de proprietatibus] of aungels . a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 138 Crist..telliþ þe heieste proprete þat falliþ to a good herde. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) I. xxx. f. xii Hauynge great experience in hawkynge & huntynge and other properties apperteyny[n]ge to a Gentylman. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther f. 70v The persone of Antichrist, his nature, disposicion,..and all his propreties. 1614 R. Brathwait 91 The perfect Idiome and Character of his Natiue Properties is already depictured. a1628 J. Preston (1634) 38 A man that hath excellent gifts and graces himselfe, he cannot convey them to another, but that is the propertie of God, that is peculiar to him alone. 1638 W. Chillingworth i. v. §13. 257 This is..to..take upon you the property of God, which is to know the hearts of men. 1642 T. Fuller v. xiii. 409 He hath this property of an honest man, that his word is as good as his hand. 1794 W. Godwin III. xiv. 260 I am sorry for your ill properties; but I entertain no enmity against you. 1821 W. Scott II. ix. 231 One, of whom he used to say, he knew no virtuous property. 1903 IV. 631/1 Ma moother had varra good properties; she always made us wark and put wer things away. the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of 1551 T. Wilson sig. Bvijv Properte, is a natural pronenes, & manner of doyng, whiche agreeth to one kinde, and to the same onely and that euermore. 1628 T. Spencer 62 Properties be not adjuncts: for, adiuncts doe outwardly befall the subiect... Properties..are necessary emanations from the principles of nature. 1701 tr. F. Burgersdijck 31 The Predicables are five in Number, viz. Genus, Species, Difference, Property and Accident. 1725 I. Watts i. ii. §3. 28 A secondary essential Mode is any other Attribute of a Thing, which is not of primary Consideration: This is called a Property: Sometimes indeed it goes toward making up the Essence, especially of a complex Being..; sometimes it depends upon, and follows from the Essence of it; so Volubility, or Aptness to rou, is the Property of a Bow, and is derived from its Roundness. 1870 W. S. Jevons (1880) xii. 102 Property..may perhaps be best described as any quality which is common to the whole of a class, but is not necessary to mark out that class from other classes. 1916 H. W. B. Joseph (ed. 2) iv. 96 The notion of essence, and the distinction between essence and property, are not applicable in the same way to every subject. 1947 H. Reichenbach §17. 83 The term ‘property’..is usually applied only to one-place situational functions. 2002 R. Knowles i. 15 Cicero in effect had already taken on board the predicables, i.e. that which can be predicated of any thing (genus, species, difference, property, accident). the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > distinguishing feature 1953 C. E. Bazell iii. 38 The acoustic and articulatory property-complexes are ‘genuine’ aspects of the phonemes. 1962 E. F. Haden et al. iv. 49 Every entity in language has a Property and a Form... The Property of each entity is internal to it, corresponding to its function in the complex of which it is a part. 1965 N. Chomsky iv. 160 In any given linguistic system lexical entries enter into intrinsic semantic relations of a much more systematic sort than is suggested by what has been said so far. We might use the term ‘field properties’ to refer to these..aspects. the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 109 Þat ryuer of Mercie was somtyme þe marke and mere bytwene þe kyngdom of Mercia and þe kyngdom of Norþhumberlond; þat may be i-schewed in tweie maneres: first by þe propurte [?a1475 anon. tr. by the significacion; L. per significationem] of þis word Mersee, þat is as moche to mene, as asse [read a se] þat is a bound and a mere; for he departeþ oon kyngdom from anoþer. c1400 J. Gower (1901) II. 490 So hath the werre as ther no proprite. a1464 J. Capgrave (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 222 And Herri Percy, aftir þe propirté of his name, percid or presed, in so fer þat he was ded, and no man wist of whom. a1500 (a1400) J. Wyclif (1880) 353 (MED) Þat is good loue of þe fire of charite, and is clepid benignitie by propirte of word. 1531 T. Elyot i. xv. sig. Hivv All kyndes of writyng must also be sought for; nat for the histories only, but also for the propretie of wordes, whiche communely do receiue theyr autoritie of noble autours. 1627 W. Sclater 252 Though in large sense it may be stiled Excommunication,..yet, in propertie of speach, is not so. 1673 54 The neatness and property of your Clothes... Property, I call a certain suitableness and convenience, betwixt the Clothes and the Person. 1740 G. Cheyne 136 With infinite Variety, Justness, and Property. 3. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > appurtenance(s) c1390 Cato's Distichs (Vernon) 493 in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 595 Þe propertes of nature, Redi to þe þei be [L. Comoda nature nullo tibi tempore deerunt]. a1425 (?c1375) N. Homily Legendary (Harl.) in C. Horstmann (1881) 2nd Ser. 128 Also ȝit gert he mak þarin Propirtese by preue gyn. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Heref. 33 Many aged folk which in other countries are properties of the chimneyes, or confined to their beds, are here found in the feild as able..to work. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. 2377 (MED) Supplant..Fulofte happneth forto mowe Thing which an other man hath sowe, And makth comun of proprete With sleihte and with soubtilite. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 28389 (MED) Haue i tan bath aght and fe O þam þat had na propur-te. a1450 (a1401) (Bodl.) (1957) 140 (MED) Bi þis þei seie þat þei bien poore in spirite, bicause þei bien wiþoute wil or desire..and þat þei lyuen wiþout any choys or propirte. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 113 Þat þou mowe be dispoiled of all maner propirte. 1526 W. Bonde i. sig. Dviiv They..had no property: but all was in common. 1604 W. Shakespeare ii. ii. 572 A King, Vpon whose property and most deare life, A damn'd defeate was made. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke ii. ix. §123 He..is willing to join in Society with others..for the mutual Preservation of their Lives, Liberties and Estates, which I call by the general Name, Property. 1758 S. Johnson 15 July 113 Time therefore ought, above all other kinds of property, to be free from invasion. c1796 T. Twining (1894) 33 She was the property, I understood, of Mr. Francis, who had bought her some time before. 1804 ‘E. de Acton’ I. 13 The sole disposal of a property to the amount of a hundred thousand pounds. 1838 A. W. Fonblanque in (1874) 290 In 1838..the personal property of 24 English Bishops who had died within the last 20 years amounted to £1.649.000. 1874 J. R. Green vi. §4. 304 The printing press was making letters the common property of all. 1921 J. Galsworthy 243 Property! Could there be men who looked on women as their property? 1978 S. Biko xiv. 95 The Xhosas were thieves who went to war for stolen property. 1994 (Nexis) 22 June A pawn or pledge involved a transfer of the possession of personal property from the pawnor to the pawnbroker by way of security. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate 1719 D. Defoe 363 They..had their Properties set apart for them. 1792 A. Young 411 Small properties, much divided, prove the greatest source of misery that can be conceived. 1825 18 Mar. Every Property on which the Proprietor is not actually resident, as well absolute Grants, as Reserves, distant Farms, Stock runs or Grazing Grounds. 1856 R. W. Emerson iv. 63 They are substantial farmers, whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties. 1885 28 May 835/1 Lord Eldon..possessed one considerable property in Durham, and another in Dorset. 1910 I. 694/2 Alleyn acquired this large property for little more than £10,000. 1942 J. Hackston 84 There were a lot of small properties, places with a good house, orchard planted, land fenced and cleared. 1976 21 May 2/5 Mr. Baines said he later checked similar stonework elsewhere in Hackney and eventually more than 50 properties had to be dealt with. 1999 Nov. 18/3 The general rule of thumb with buying property abroad is that you arrange for the mortgage to be in the currency of your earnings. 1919 25 May iv. 2/8 An immensely profitable property which New York has long lost sight of is ‘The Bird of Paradise’, Richard Walton Tully's play. 1925 25 Oct. 41/3 Fox will furnish the capital while the Milton firm will make the productions, which will revert to Fox as a piece of picture property. 1968 13 Jan. 24/1 Some time ago, I ran into David Merrick in a Beverly Hills hotel. I told him, ‘Why the hell don't you find me a musical to do?’ Just like that. Several months later, he called me to tell me that he thought he had found the right property. 1992 M. Medved ii. iv. 59 Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel about crazed and arrogant missionaries in the Amazon rain forest had been considered an intriguing but unfilmable property in Hollywood for more than two decades. 2003 23 June d2/1 First of all, stop calling them ‘books’. They're ‘properties’. And every property that's any property has been optioned for film, probably long before it reached bookstores. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > [noun] > regarded as commercial asset 1945 22 Jan. 13/3 The Rand novel is hot property. 1948 23 May (Grafic section) 13/4 She goes into her first New York play this fall... It's what we call a hot property. 1958 J. Blish xiv. 153 Signor Egtverchi is now a hot property... Suddenly..he is worth a lot of money. 1969 28 June 22 The Hagers, potentially hot property, now have Record One. 1987 Mar. 15/6 Davies and Poole..the two hottest properties around in Australia at the moment..were both injured last season but showed promise. 1995 21 Apr. 3/1 Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th-century abbess and composer..is hot property in the United States: Vision, an electronic remix of her songs..has been number one in the crossover charts there for 18 weeks. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > share > shares in specific country or industry 1964 3 Mar. 19/5 There was a little more interest in Properties, sentiment being helped by last Friday's Gallup poll. 1977 24 Jan. 16/9 Properties ran into profit-taking with Haslemere 176p, MEPC 62p, Land Securities 161p, and Stock Conversion 161p on offer. 1981 14 Aug. 18/3 Properties came in for a small shake out with Stock Conversion. the mind > possession > owning > [noun] the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > fact of being owned a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iii. 2326 Whan that a riche, worthi king..Wol axe and cleyme proprete In thing to which he hath no riht. c1400 J. Wyclif (1871) III. 479 (MED) And for þis mercy doynge schall come to ȝow propperte of lordeschip and pes and riches in erthe. a1425 J. Wyclif (1869) I. 317 Þe cite of Beedleem was Daviþis bi sum propirte. 1489 M. Paston in (2004) I. 668 Tyll it myth be vndyrstond wedyre þe propyrte ware in þe Kyng or in my lord. c1525 Rule St. Francis (Faust.) in J. S. Brewer & R. Howlett (1858) I. 568 (MED) The iiiior masters answere and say that there be certenn thingis that be resceived for proprete and nat for the vse, and this ys forbiddyn to the bretherne, for they may resceive nothing for propertye. 1582 in D. Masson (1880) 1st Ser. III. 501 Landis..pertening to the said David, Erll of Craufurd,..in propertie and tenandrie. 1601 W. Shakespeare Phoenix & Turtle in R. Chester 171 Either was the others mine. Propertie was thus appalled, That the selfe was not the same: Single Natures double name, Neither two nor one was called. 1641 (new ed.) f. 226 Propertie is the highest right that a man hath or can have to any thing, which no way dependeth upon another mans curtesie. 1690 J. Locke i. iv. §42 God..has given no one of his Children such a Property in his peculiar Portion of the Things of this World. 1713 Treaty of Utrecht in Magens (1755) II. 501 Sea-letters or Passports, expressing the Name, Property and Bulk of the Ship. 1768 W. Blackstone III. x. 190 The right of possession (though it carries with it a strong presumption) is not always conclusive evidence of the right of property, which may still subsist in another man. 1813 T. Jefferson Let. 13 Aug. in (1984) 1291 It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. 1838 T. Drummond Let. to Tipperary Magistrates 18 Apr. in B. O'Brien (1889) 284 Property has its duties as well as its rights. 1875 K. E. Digby x. 327 Rights of property or ownership over land, meaning by property or ownership the enjoyment of those indefinite rights of user over land by virtue of which in ordinary language a person is entitled to speak of land as his property. 1921 J. Galsworthy 75 ‘It's their sense of property,’ he said, ‘which makes people chain things. The last generation thought of nothing but property; and that's why there was the War.’ 1991 Autumn 89 Moreover, it provided that the common law, statute law and rights of property could not be affected by Proclamations. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > props a1450 (1969) l. 132 Þese parcell [read parcellys] in propyrtes we purpose us to playe Þis day seuenenyt. 1578 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 303 Furnished in this office with sondrey garmentes & properties. 1600 W. Shakespeare i. ii. 98 I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. View more context for this quotation 1629 P. Massinger iv. ii. sig. I This cloake, and hat without Wearing a beard, or other propertie Will fit the person. 1748 25–28 June To be Sold very cheap, Cloaths, Scenes, Properties, clean, and in very good Order. 1777 R. B. Sheridan Sept. (1966) I. 115 The Property Man (viz. he who makes the Property) Not to make any Things new but what is ordered by the Board. 1831 B. Disraeli II. iii. xix. 268 They were excessively amused with the properties; and Lord Squib proposed they should dress themselves. 1881 W. P. Lennox II. iii. 47 ‘I used it as a property’. ‘A what?’ interrupted the..magistrate. 1904 G. K. Chesterton iii. i. 132 Armour, music, standards, watch-fires, the noise of drums, all the theatrical properties were thrown before him. 1943 J. Symons Elegy on City in 31 But this is abstract like a play In which the scenic properties Move and are more than properties, The grass is greener than real green. 1988 I. Konigsberg 281/1 Prop man, the individual responsible for obtaining, altering, or building properties. 2005 (Nexis) 11 Jan. 6 Mr Slater loved the challenge of making the stage properties. the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe > a puppet, tool 1611 J. Speed ix. xx. 733/2 That he was but a Puppet, or a property in the late tragicall motion. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. iv. 10 'Tis a thing impossible I should loue thee, but as a property . View more context for this quotation 1667 R. Allestree xii. 321 Both religion..and those that fought for it, were only made properties to promote the lusts of those who despised both. 1764 T. Legg (ed. 3) 54 Hackney Coachmen..praying for rainy Weather, that they may make a Property of the People they carry in the Afternoon. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ (new ed.) 128/1 Property, an easy fellow, a tool made use of to serve any purpose, a cat's-paw.] Phrases 1756 W. Blackstone ii. xvii. 64 Property in Action, is where a Man hath not the actual Occupation of the Thing; but only a Right to it, arising upon some Contract, and recoverable by an Action at Law. 1774 S. Hallifax xiv. 56 Property in Action may be transferred, in England, by a Contract. 1833 Apr. 446 The court shall have power..to order transfers of stock or other property in action to be made according to the rules of law or equity. 1874 22 552 He was made liable for her debts at the period of marriage, because the law gave to him all her personal estate in possession, and the power to recover her personal property in action. 1956 J. W. Hurst (1986) i. 25 The main current ran to the protection of property in action. 1996 28 475 The common law also entitled the husband to his wife's personal property in action (choses in action) existing at the time of the marriage. Compounds C1. General attributive, objective, etc. (in senses 3, 4). 1806 J. Lawrence (ed. 2) 120 In the business of property accounts, there are certain general rules. 1984 20 Sept. 21 The principal causes in the property account were the additional costs of the extreme winter weather. 2004 F. Gallinelli Introd. p. xviii If it's your real estate investment that experiences the negative cash flow, then you have to make up the shortfall from funds outside the property account. 1957 K. A. Wittfogel 2 The modern property-based system of industry. 2003 89 1736 Although the parties framed their arguments in the property-based language endorsed by the Olmstead line of cases, the Court declined to decide the case on those grounds. 1834 ‘Helot’ 10 The working classes..are too weak of themselves to attack the privileged or ‘property’ classes. 1947 A. M. Henderson et al. 429 The type of class which is most closely related to a stratum is the ‘social’ class, while the ‘acquisition’ class is the farthest removed. Property classes often constitute the nucleus of a stratum. 2002 (Nexis) 22 Sept. 2 People who have never been homeowners..would argue that too many tax breaks have already been afforded the property classes. 1891 1 574/1 The admirable executive ability of the management seeing its capabilities as a property developer, started immediately to reach the goal of excellence which it attained some years ago. 1907 9 Jan. 47/2 The Corporation..contains a solid body of property-owners and ‘property-developers’ whose interests are strongly opposed to reforms. 1970 Oct. 76/1 Property developers..wreaked vandalism upon the cities and countryside of England. 2015 R. Forlee i. 2 A property developer is a disciplined professional with an entrepreneurial flair who specialises in creating new developments and successfully marketing and selling them. 1824 Memorial 19 June in (1856) 18th Congress 1 Sess., App. ii. 3129 The memorial of the..property-holders of the city of Baltimore. 1923 105 254/1 Men out of work were gotten together, permission of property holders secured, and in a suitable place about a half mile of the bank was cleared. 2004 (Nexis) 21 Apr. 5 This is a tragedy for the traders and property holders in the area and I was very sorry indeed to learn of the distress, disappointment and hardship caused by this unfortunate fire. 1839 in W. Claggett Notes 15 Here, then, is a moral and intelligent, industrious and property-holding colored population, having become so in consequence of enjoying freedom. 1845 J. Blanchard in (1846) 22 The principle of the Greek slave code was precisely the same with that of American slavery, viz: the property-holding of men. 1906 J. F. Rhodes VI. Pref. 5 The educated and property-holding people of several States. 1974 V. Maher iii. 40 The discussion of property-holding reveals that the majority of the population owns very little. 1995 Nov. 86/3 If a property-holding service company was formed, would its VATable outputs exceed the registration limit? 2004 A. Hudson ii. 39 A number of property writers are doing interesting work..analysing other forms of common or quasi-common forms of property holding. 1835 J. F. Cooper I. v. 83 It is quite impossible that any one should become a safe statesman, who does not possess a direct property interest in society. 1882 Apr. 943/1 The English and American publishers are now wrangling over the question of how authors can be in part protected, without giving them a simple property-interest in, and entire control of, the product of their work. 1994 D. A. McWhirter 41 The Fourth Amendment required the Court to balance the needs of law enforcement against the legitimate privacy and property interests of the people. 2005 A. Clarke & P. Kohler v. 161 It is possible to limit a property interest to last only during a person's life-time. 1822 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes II. 227 Isæus, the great property-lawyer of the Athenians, assures us that this was a trick in very common practice at Athens. 1998 23 Apr. 54/1 Baldwin..is played as a cocky young property lawyer scrambling for fees..and referred to by the Africans among themselves as ‘the Dung-Scraper’. 2013 I. Samet in J. Penner & H. Smith vi. 128 Others see it [sc. proprietary estoppel] as an indispensible part of the property lawyer's toolkit. 1846 J. F. Cooper I. ii. 26 Surely, my dear uncle, you cannot seriously apprehend anything of that nature from our order-loving, law-loving, property-loving Americans! 1931 W. A. Fairburn iii. 220 Russians refuse to believe that in any country on earth—and certainly not in capitalistic and property-loving America—can ripe fruit, nuts and vegetables be left in orchards, gardens and fields unguarded. 2003 (Nexis) 6 Nov. 25 Add to that the mushrooming mortgage debt that this property-loving country has assumed, and the average household is carrying a massive burden. 1853 Jrnl. Auctions & Sales in W. Paterson (end matter) Property Reporter; comprising the Money Market; Stocks and Funds; state of the Property Market; a complete Share List, [etc.]. 1875 10 May 15/2 (advt.) Review of the property market for the past month, containing interesting and valuable information to the Solicitors, and to buyers and sellers of land and houses. 1905 20 May 3/5 Indications that the property market is returning to the condition of healthy activity. 2004 (Nexis) 17 Mar. 33 The Government welcomed a plateauing in the fast-growing property market. 1834 713 The latter were the majority of the church worshippers, or..were the old, experienced, weighty members; for as property owners, at least all Friends, are on an equality. 1902 2 June 2/1 Many..district councils are under the complete domination of cottage property owners. 2004 11 Oct. 18/2 Ranchers, hunters and property owners, people who tend to be politically conservative yet find themselves making alliances with strange bedfellows..in a common effort to protect their livelihoods and land. 1836 5 Apr. 4/2 It will be profitable for our property-owning readers..to consider the circumstances of another Eighth-avenue transaction. 1923 19 May 837/2 It remains to state as clearly as may be what means lie ready to develop a property-owning democracy. 2005 (Nexis) 26 Nov. a15 As our nation came into being, we based our colonial political systems on our British heritage, limiting voting rights to property-owning men. 1837 Suppl. 13 May I venture to express an opinion, that Church Rates, as well as Tithes, were ‘given’ or ‘bequeathed’ at first, and that, consequently, this property-right did originate in a ‘bequest’. 1853 15 Feb. 8/4 Although professing friendship and sympathy we cannot consent that England shall mix herself up with our concerns... We desire no intrusion of advice as to our individual property rights, at home or abroad. 1942 W. Temple ii. 27 Men are sinful, so property-rights are needed, not so much for the satisfaction of the rich as for the protection of the poor. 2003 28 Apr. 10/3 Some tribes see it as a property right, some have a hybrid approach, and some hold their views about water particularly close to the vest. 1824 21 Feb. 183/3 Our wholesale property-speculators and their gentry in livery, called runners. 1912 16 Feb. 6/6 (advt.) It is a most unusual thing for the president of a railroad to thus go on record, to caution people not to be misled by advertisement of property speculators. 2002 29 Oct. 25/3 Fashionable gardeners and eco-business entrepreneurs have moved in. Property speculators have long since Hoovered up the prime sites. 1816 T. Attwood 16 The levying of monied taxes upon property naturally raises the monied value of property, and depresses the property value of money. 1851 17 137/2 The right to tax is a species of exception, because some property value is essential to the support of the government. 1914 102 Suddenly he finds his property values injured..because someone has chosen to construct a small retail store. 2003 18 Oct. i. 1/5 The end is finally in sight for ‘skyscraper’ leylandii hedges which block light, cause subsidence and dramatically reduce property values. C2. Theatre and Film (cf. sense 5). a. General attributive and objective. See also property box n. 2. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > property-man 1559 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 110 Wages of taylours, karvars, propertie makers, wemen & other. 1818 R. B. Peake i. ii. 14 Call that having much to do!—now if you had half my employments—an't I a manager, principal performer, prompter, painter, and property-maker! 1999 R. B. Graves 152 At the same time, a property maker was paid for ‘hanging the Throne and Chaire in the Cockpit, [etc.]’. 1719 18 The Attendance of his Vassals, so far of Property-mongers, and Trafickers of Liberty. 1819 L. T. Berguer 52 They may cry aloud to the property-mongers, the Mammon worshippers of the land, and the town and country gentry. 1897 Oct. 349 Rant and frippery that befit a third-rate actor or a second-hand property-monger. 1910 N. A. Richardson i. vii. 76 They are now dominated by a relatively few members of our order of property-mongers. 1966 R. Church iv. 155 Parliament and property-mongers haggle indifferently about the economics of future development. 1947 12 July 50/3 The property truck chalked up our first serious accident of the season. 1961 W. P. Bowman & R. H. Ball 280 Property truck, a wagon offstage on which properties can be placed until needed. 1963 May 19/3 He sat in the back of the property truck writing the ending. 2004 G. Stevens in M. A. Moss ii. 58 That gave us time to write the first scene of the picture, in the property truck, with a stenographer. 1860 Jan. 411 It was difficult to hold this faith when the bear garden rivalled in attractions the theatre, and the players trudged behind the property wagon, uncertain whether the worshipful mayor would grant or deny them the use of an inn yard. 1895 5 55/1 The baggage-wagons and the property-wagons have stopped near the dressing-rooms. 2014 S. Ward v. 77 He, showing a keen and brash presence of mind, armed his company with the swords, pikes and muskets held in the company's property wagon and awaited the rioters. 1829 H. Foote 38 Beneath it is the printing-office; and over it are property workshops. 1985 (Nexis) 29 Oct. c28 The post-modern edifice..will have two theaters, two rehearsal halls.., the latest video equipment and costume, scenery and properties workshops. 2002 (Nexis) 7 Oct. 12 We have the best property workshop in the world, the best costume workshop in the world and the best voice training. b. Applied appositively to any article (esp. an imitation) used as a prop or stage accessory. 1880 17 June 6/4 Obedient to instructions, Mr. George Jones knelt down, while the mysterious potentate..smote him on the back with the flat edge of a property broadsword, and told him to ‘Rise up Count Johannes’. 1956 18 Sept. 10/1 A politico-theatrical museum cluttered with a property broadsword once used by Mary Pickford and plug hats worn by W. C. Fields. 1908 at Property Property cittern. 1901 C. Morris xl. 365 Suddenly he rose—tossed that extraordinary hat of his off, picked me up in his arms and carried me like a big property doll to the curtain's side. 1908 at Property Property doll. 1979 14 39 All Chinese opera companies are said to treat their property dolls (used to represent babies) with ritual care. 2002 R. Shaughnessy 74 As Cranmer launched into his eulogy to Elizabeth, the baby was revealed to the audience as a property doll. 1856 Apr. 422 The theatre is the especial home of tradition on all subjects, from the stuffing of a property-fowl to the stage-business of a scene of Shakespeare. 1895 2 Dec. 1/2 The man who can't eat a property fowl is no actor. 1925 T. W. F. Gann iv. 74 The chicken, which under Muddy's régime had been like a leather property fowl, was quite decent. 1963 O. Sitwell 221 These cruel feasts where bread turns inevitably to a stone and every..chicken to a property fowl. C3. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond 1869 25 Oct. 8/5 According to the same journal, a fresh issue of ecclesiastical property bonds is contemplated. 1913 15 Jan. 1/4 District Attorney Miller declared that the property bonds for Ryan..did not aggregate more than $37,500, while $200,000 should have been scheduled. 1970 17 Jan. 22/3 The considerable expansion of property values since the war..is the great selling point for property bonds, compared with other investment plans. 2003 J. H. Scott xi. 135 They made the parents put up cash to get their children out of jail, told them they couldn't accept property bonds like they usually did. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say 1685 J. Dryden iii. sig. G2 The Saints advance, To fill the Dance, And the Property Boys come in. 1796 ii. i. 28 Confound the property boy, he has forgot to leave the ink on the table. 1888 27 Jan. He gave instructions to a property boy in a country theater to roll the thunder at a certain cue. 1950 4 323 In the infancy of the motion picture industry, the property boy, the costumer, the art department, and everyone else concerned with the making of a picture, relied on his own imagination. 2004 (Nexis) 1 Mar. Benny's money ran out but he found a job as a property boy at the East Ham Palace theatre. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say 1885 Mar. 258/1 The ‘property child’—that generally figures in the basket—was well known to all the company. 1890 J. Jefferson i. 3 I had seen many rehearsals..having been taken on ‘in arms’ as a property child. 1863 W. S. Gilbert in Dec. 725 We also shared..a ‘property’ clerk, who did nothing at all. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > certificates 1986 3 May 278/2 The unit to be held by investors and traded in the new market will be known as a Property Income Certificate. 1997 (Nexis) 1 Oct. 29 Pincs—property income certificates—were a two-part security traded as one on the London Stock Exchange. One element was debt-like, entitling the holder to a portion of the rental stream from a property pool. The other element was equity, reflecting the properties' capital value. 1941 F. Lafitte in 33 71/1 Prestige goes primarily with the ownership of property... Social security, too, depends on climbing the income and property ladder. 1983 18 May 2/2 First-time buyers..need an income of almost £10,000 a year to be able to get their foot on the property ladder. 2013 (Nexis) 12 Oct. 29 The scheme has already enabled thousands of people across the country to get on to or move up the property ladder. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > property-man 1633 J. Shirley 19 There rush in A Carpenter. A Paynter... A Feather-makers Wife. A Property-Mans Wife. 1749 W. R. Chetwood 251 Property-man is the person that receives a bill from the prompter for what is necessary in every play; as purses, wine, suppers, poison, [etc.]. 1856 R. W. Emerson xiii. 229 The religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. 1982 H. Rosenthal xxi. 209 The week-end..coincided with a strike by the stage-hands and property men. 2012 E. Harris ii. 29 Ready..to help out as required, carrying furniture, removing a heavy lamp or assisting the property man. 1863 M. C. Houstoun I. x. 89 The old drawing-room..bore very much the appearance of a decorating-room at a country theatre, with the ‘property’ manager superintending the arrangements for the ‘representation’ of the night. 1888 29 Feb. Charlie Drennan has accepted a lucrative position as property manager for a large stone quar[r]y company in Colorado. 1896 14 Aug. 3/4 Edwin Phillips, property manager at the Novelty Theatre, said the dagger used on Monday did not belong to the theatre, but Mr. Franks told him he preferred his own, as it looked better. 1903 29 May 8/3 To take over the business of..printer,..estate and property manager, rent collector, &c. 1946 W. A. Leach (title) Urban estate management: a handbook for the property manager, owner and student. 1993 D. Shay & J. Duncan 191 Film Credits... Production staff..Loader..Property Manager, [etc.]. 1998 (U.S. Dept. of Labor Bull. 2500) 70/2 Property managers perform an important function in increasing and maintaining the value of real estate investments. 2013 Autumn 47/2 I started out as a woodsman, trained to be a forester and then became Property Manager at Brockhampton. 2014 W. Poundstone i. 28 Zenith sent along two radios to each production, one for the property manager to take home as swag and the other to appear on-screen. society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark of ownership 1860 Oct. 592/2 We left him on the open prairie, cutting a heap of green grass for his bed and board, clipping his ear for a property-mark, and praying that the wolves might spare him. Good old mule! 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson ii. 29 The heraldry of Poland is unique in Europe because of the pre-heraldic runic signs, thought to be ancient clan property marks. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > property-man 1854 14 June 12/4 Yesterday Mr. William Payne, the coroner for London and Southwark, held an inquest..on the body of Mr. George Percy, aged 45, the property-master and modeller at the Surrey Theatre. 1982 T. Barr iv. xxvi. 191 The Prop department. This department consists of property master and assistants. 2005 Feb. 117 (caption) Property master Ty Teiger, props/model-shop supervisor Peter Wyborn, and team members John Paul ‘Lon’ Lucini and Trevor Smith enjoy some downtime with a battle droid. 1916 15 May 6/3 For Mrs. Melville, who is the property mistress, the following card will mark her place: ‘Dear Mistress of the property, Your name we all do bless, For your artistic setting Helped us gain success’. 1988 (Nexis) 23 Sept. vi. 2/1 Where do they get those disposable props? Simple. The directors just ask Barbara Krepps, the property mistress. 2005 (Nexis) 27 Oct. 6 As well as being an active committee member, she is also the programme designer, properties mistress and generally a Jill of all trades. 1517 in J. Nichols (1797) 156 Paied to Damyon, the property player, for caryinge of his propertes home. 1977 31 5 (title) That enterprising property player: semi-professional drama in sixteenth century England. 1986 16 Nov. 64/7 The big City property players are only now arriving in force. 2005 (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Business section) 25 One of Northern Ireland's biggest property players has bought two major commercial properties in Great Britain. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > operation of lights > plan of lighting or props 1874 Apr. 639 The property-man is provided with a property-plot of each play—a property-plot being a list of the various articles required in each act. 1998 79 626 These materials, however, are available in the 1915 Samuel French edition of the play, which includes a detailed property plot, electrical plot (complete with illustrated lighting plot)..and publicity notes. 1794 125 That no Property Qualification should be necessary to intitle any Man to be a Representative. 1807 16 Nov. (1852) 916 The Constitution of the United States requires no property qualification in the elected. 1851 C. Merivale III. xxxii. 505 He raised the property qualification to twelve hundred thousand sesterces. 1870 E. A. Freeman (ed. 2) I. App. 590 The strange notion..that a property qualification was needed for a seat in the Witenagemót. 1960 C. Williamson ix. 174 The Pennsylvania constitution was anathema, not only because it did not require a property qualification for voting but also because foreigners were permitted to vote after only two years' residence. 2002 88 979 Even though education and property qualifications for voting have in the past been defended, is there any doubt that these restrictions would be subject to, and would fail, heightened scrutiny? society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > property room 1758 P. Shea 15 These horses..are always ready caparisoned in the Property Room, and can never hurt the Limbs, or endanger the Lives, of the Riders. 1885 J. K. Jerome 66 The dressing-rooms (two rows of wooden sheds) were situate over the property room, and were reached by means of a flight of steps. 1999 J. L. Styan 71 I pass over the traditional stuffed stag that resides in the property room at Stratford, and William's single flower that once constituted a bouquet for Audrey. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax 1796 5 Mar. The Order of the Day being read on the Collateral Property Tax Bill.] 1798 4 Dec. Mr. Pitt brought up the Property Tax Bill, and moved that it be read a first time. 1852 T. Gisborne 50 We have now proposed to subject to a Property Tax, all fixed property, all moveable property, all the productive power of man, and the national debt. 1978 30 Mar. b6/3 The legislative leaders and Governor Carey agreed today to..offer low-income taxpayers, particularly the elderly, a property-tax protection program. 2004 (U.K. ed.) July 15/1 Property taxes, the dominant source of local income, have traditionally financed schools, a custom that results in inadequate funding in lower-income districts. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > types or schemes of taxation 1844 R. Cobden Let. 7 Dec. in 16 Sept. (1901) 25/2 As a leaguer we must not take up the question of direct property-taxation, but individually I go with you entirely. 1991 M. Ridge & S. Smith 46 The analysis of property taxation has to take into account that over time buildings can be removed, relocated, or property owners' capital invested in other assets. 1795 G. Coleman ii. 23 Carpenter Why, it's a new chair for the Prompter. Prompter Oh! that alters the case. Well, let it be handsome; do you mind? Stud it with brass nails, and cover it with best Morocco—and tell the Property-woman to put a good soft velvet cushion in it, dye hear? 1808 1 692/2 His wife was (in the technical language of the theatre) a dresser and property-woman. 1925 Sept. 11/3 Two winters ago Miss André started with the Cherry Lane Players as property woman. 2001 R. J. Maturi & M. B. Maturi i. i. 23 A discussion she had with the studio property woman while waiting for Miss Bayne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † propertyv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: property n. Obsolete. the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > render instrumental [verb (transitive)] > use as mere instrument a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. ii. 79 I am too high-borne to be propertied [printed proportied; corrected in 1632] To be a..seruing-man, and Instrument To any Soueraigne State throughout the world. View more context for this quotation 1758 I. Ded. 5 There must..be a vast fund of stupidity amongst mankind, to make them..be continually property'd away for the interests of a few crafty leaders. the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 58 His large Fortune..Subdues and properties to his loue and tendance All sorts of hearts. View more context for this quotation 1749 10 Whatever is propertied, whatever is possessed, whatever Industry can earn, or Opulence can purchase, is granted, fenced, guarded, and affirmed by Liberty. 1833 T. Hook I. x. 203 A being like Emma—whose sentiments, whose character are propertied by the one, one engrossing passion. 1897 F. Thompson 113 Thou hast enwoofèd her An empress of the air, And all her births are propertied by thee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018). <  n.a1382 v.a1616 |
