proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To preserve intact the latter distinction, the proprium of the Son and His personal subsistence had to be kept distinct from the proprium and subsistence of the Father.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

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

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

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

“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