proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A proprium of the species, however, is predicated of the species necessarily being an attribute, not indeed connoted by the name, but following from an attribute connoted by it.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)

In qualibet ecclesia nominandum esse patronum seu titularem proprium ejusdem ecclesiae.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

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

Martialem acumine, quod proprium Latinorum, et peculiare tunc fieri cœpit, valere; adeoque Catullum toto corpore epigrammatis esse conspicuum, Martialem clausula præcipue, atque ultimo fine, in quo relinquat, cum delectatione, aculeum spectari516.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John