Pro*pri"e*ta*ry (?), n.; pl.
Proprietaries (#). [L. proprietarius: cf. F.
propriétaire. 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.
2. A body proprietors, taken
collectively.
3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved
goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all
at the time of profession.
Pro*pri"e*ta*ry, a. [L.
proprietarius.] 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.
