proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Educability—an example of the proprium in mediæval text-books—is common to men, and results from man's essential constitution; but it is not peculiar; other animals are educable.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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

It was not without meaning that, as early as in the apostolic times, the "Saints" was a kind of nomen proprium of believers, comp.

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

In qualibet ecclesia nominandum esse patronum seu titularem proprium ejusdem ecclesiae.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by