Proprietary



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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.
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
adjective
1.
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.