proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But both proprium and accidens are said to be predicated of the species accidentally.

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

The principal mistake in it is this, that it has been overlooked that the Prophet here expresses the nature of the Messiah and of His time in the form of a nomen proprium.

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

Et ueniet coram justiciariis ad custum suum proprium ...

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Except myself, no one, perhaps, had Gustavus's name in his bill so often as the starling, who, like court people, never had anything in his head but a nomen proprium.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul