proprium
Example Sentences
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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."
From Time Magazine Archive
The principal mistake in it is this, that it has been overlooked that the Prophet here expresses the nature of the Messiah and of His time in the form of a nomen proprium.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Itaque etsi à Cæsare absolutus fuit, tamen suis ipsius verbis proprium crimen abunde quasi in tabulâ propositum divulgavit.
From The Scribleriad and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue by Anonymous
That man cooks his food is probably a genuine proprium.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
Cujus ratio est, quia sapientia est potissima perfectio rationis, cujus proprium est cognoscere ordinem....
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
