proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Jeshurun stands as a kind of nomen proprium, and is not parallel to עבדי, but to Jacob.

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

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

For this name does not there stand as an ordinary nomen proprium, but as an honorary name, to designate the high dignity and destination of the Servant of God.

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