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proprietary

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CIDE DICTIONARY

proprietaryn. [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propriétaire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A body proprietors, taken collectively.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.  [1913 Webster]
proprietarya. [L. proprietarius.].
     Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.  [1913 Webster]
Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

proprietary, adj.
1 a of, holding, or concerning property (the proprietary classes). b of or relating to a proprietor (proprietary rights).
2 held in private ownership.

Idiom
proprietary medicine any of several drugs, medicines, etc. produced by private companies under brand names. proprietary name (or term) a name of a product etc. registered by its owner as a trade mark and not usable by another without permission.
Etymology
LL proprietarius (as PROPERTY)

THESAURUS

proprietary

balm, balsam, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, dominion, dominium, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, feoffee, feudatory, generic name, herbs, householder, inhalant, laird, land tenure, landed, landholding, landlady, landlord, landownership, landowning, lincture, linctus, lord, lordship, master, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, mixture, nonprescription drug, officinal, overlordship, owner, ownership, patent medicine, pharmacon, physic, possession, possessive, possessorship, possessory, powder, preparation, prescription drug, propertied, property, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, proprietor, proprietorship, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, seigniory, simples, sovereignty, squire, syrup, theraputant, tisane, titleholder, vegetable remedies

ROGET THESAURUS

proprietary

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.


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