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)

That the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles is a proprium, true of all triangles, and deducible from the essential properties of a triangle.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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