proprium

Example Sentences

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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)

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

Educability—an example of the proprium in mediæval text-books—is common to men, and results from man's essential constitution; but it is not peculiar; other animals are educable.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, 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