proprium

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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."

From Time Magazine Archive

In quadragesima autem nullum genus operis faciet ad cibum proprium usque nonam nisi quod herciabit tota die.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

The latter expression had become so much a nomen proprium of Jerusalem, that the full depth of its meaning was no more thought of.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

Except myself, no one, perhaps, had Gustavus's name in his bill so often as the starling, who, like court people, never had anything in his head but a nomen proprium.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Thus, the defining property of an equilateral triangle is the equality of the sides: the equality of the angles is a proprium.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William