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 Pro·pri·e·ta·ry n.; pl. Proprietaries
 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.
 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.