proprium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Jeshurun stands as a kind of nomen proprium, and is not parallel to עבדי, but to Jacob.

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

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

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

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

Educability—an example of the proprium in mediæval text-books—is common to men, and results from man's essential constitution; but it is not peculiar; other animals are educable.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William