proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

That man cooks his food is probably a genuine proprium.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Res naturalis per formam qua perficitur in sua specie, habet inclinationem in proprias operationes et proprium finem, quem per operationes consequitur; quale enim unumquodque est, talia operatur, et in sibi convenientia tendit.”—St.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Deus cui proprium est misereri semper et parcere suscipe deprecationem nostram et quos delictorum cathena constringit misericordia tuæ pietatis absolvas, per Jesum Christum.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John

For as a Nomen proprium is equivalent to a noun with the article, it can never stand in the stat. constr. with another noun.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm