proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

That the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles is a proprium, true of all triangles, and deducible from the essential properties of a triangle.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The name is, of course, not to be considered as an ordinary nomen proprium, but as a designation of his nature and character.

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

Cujus ratio est, quia sapientia est potissima perfectio rationis, cujus proprium est cognoscere ordinem....

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter