01 n. 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.
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Proprietaries ((#))
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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.
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A body proprietors, taken collectively.
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3.
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.(Eccl.)