1. Noun
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
2. Noun
A body proprietors, taken collectively.
3. Noun
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
4. Adjective
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
5. Noun
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
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