Proprietaries

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L.
     proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See {Propriety}, and
     cf. {Proprietor}.]
     1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a
        thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing
        in his own right. --Fuller.


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     2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
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     3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
        himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
        time of profession.
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