Pro‐pri″e‐ta‐ry (?), n.; pl.Proprietaries (#). [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propriétaire. 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.