proprium
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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The proprium of art in the logic of the Stoics, “to create and beget,” was strictly in accordance with this etymology.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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
That man cooks his food is probably a genuine proprium.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
In qualibet ecclesia nominandum esse patronum seu titularem proprium ejusdem ecclesiae.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by