資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Proprietaries}. [L.
   proprietarius: cf. F. propri['e]taire. See {Propriety}, and
   cf. {Proprietor}.]
   1. 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. --Fuller.

   2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.

   3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
      himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
      time of profession.