Definition of Proprium

1. an attribute belonging inseparably to every member of a species [n -PRIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proprium

proprietorship certificate
proprietorships
proprietory
proprietress
proprietresses
proprietrices
proprietrix
proprietrixes
propriety
proprioception
proprioceptions
proprioceptive
proprioceptor
proprioceptors
proprionamide
proprium (current term)
proprochiral
proprochirality
proproctor
proproctors
proprotein
proproteins
proprætor
proprætorship
proprætorships
props
proptoses
proptosis
propudious
propugn

Literary usage of Proprium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"be proprium of a god. Again, if С be a proprium of A, D also will be a proprium of B. Thus, if it be a proprium of prudence to be by its own nature the ..."

2. Society the Redeemed Form of Man, and the Earnest of God's Omnipotence in by Henry James (1879)
"]AN'S appearing to himself to have a proprium, or private selfhood, is a state, ... Man's proprium when viewed by heavenly light appears altogether like ..."

3. Select English Works of John Wyclif by John Wycliffe (1869)
"proprium SANCTORUM. [BISHOP BALE, in the later edition of his Summarium, ... The title ' proprium Sanctorum ' is not therefore strictly appropriate. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"proprium.—The proprium de tempore and the proprium Sancionan form in the present ... The proprium de tempore begins with the first Sunday of Advent and ends ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The proprium Sanctorum comprises all the saints' days with special Offices, from St. Andrew on 30 November. The Offices of the saints, like those de tempere ..."

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