proprium
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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."
From Time Magazine Archive
A proprium of the species, however, is predicated of the species necessarily being an attribute, not indeed connoted by the name, but following from an attribute connoted by it.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)
Hinc est quod Exod. iii., proprium nomen Dei ponitur esse qui est, quia ejus solius proprium est, quod sua substantia non sit aliud quam suum esse.”—St.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
Quorum primum est commune omnibus entibus; secundum omnibus rebus naturalibus; tertium in una specie; et quartum, si addamus accidentia, est proprium huic individuo.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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
