proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

“It is the proprium of art,” according to the same system, “to create and beget,” and the reasoning proceeds—Nature creates and begets, therefore Nature is an artist or Demiurgus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

For this name does not there stand as an ordinary nomen proprium, but as an honorary name, to designate the high dignity and destination of the Servant of God.

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

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

The latter expression had become so much a nomen proprium of Jerusalem, that the full depth of its meaning was no more thought of.

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