proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, the defining property of an equilateral triangle is the equality of the sides: the equality of the angles is a proprium.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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

Hinc est quod Exod. iii., proprium nomen Dei ponitur esse qui est, quia ejus solius proprium est, quod sua substantia non sit aliud quam suum esse.”—St.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Diserto satis dicere quæ oporteat; ornate autem dicere proprium est eloquentissimi.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig