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A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.

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  1. n. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
  2. n. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
  3. n. A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
  4. a. Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
  5. adj. protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
  6. n. an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
  7. 1. A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right. Fuller. 2. A body proprietors, taken collectively. 3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession. Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.
  8. A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself,notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
  9. j:100 a. protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights