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)

Jus naturale est quod natura omnia animalia docuit; nam jus istud non humani generis proprium, sed omnium animalium quæ in terra, quæ in mare nascuntur, avium quoque commune est.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

But both proprium and accidens are said to be predicated of the species accidentally.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)

Et ueniet coram justiciariis ad custum suum proprium ...

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul