Proprietary

·noun A body proprietors, taken collectively.

II. Proprietary ·adj Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

III. Proprietary ·noun A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

IV. Proprietary ·noun 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.