proprium

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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not without meaning that, as early as in the apostolic times, the "Saints" was a kind of nomen proprium of believers, comp.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

Given such a fixed scheme, very nice questions may be raised as to whether a particular attribute is a defining attribute, or a proprium, or an accident, or an inseparable accident.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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