proprietary
proprietary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A body proprietors, taken collectively.
- 2.(Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
- 3.Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- apparent
- beneficiary
- devisee
- estate
- feoffee
- for
- from
- gentry
- grantee
- heir
- heiress
- heritor
- holder
- impropriator
- inheritor
- inheritress
- inheritrix
- lady
- laird
- land
- landed
- landlord
- legal
- legatary
- legatee
- lessee
- life
- lodger
- lord
- man
- manor
- master
- mesne
- mistress
- mortgagee
- mortgagor
- occupant
- occupier
- owner
- paramount
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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