proprium
a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.
Origin of proprium
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How to use proprium in a sentence
It will have naught to do with ideas that cannot verify themselves by showing themselves in propria persona.
Essays in Experimental Logic | John DeweyRound the completed follicle a very delicate membrana propria folliculi appears to be present.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourQuo nolente, propria ipsius uoluntate puell clanculo eam raptam sociauit sibi.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersDeletis igitur et confusis hostibus, Offa cum ingenti triumpho ac tripudio et gloria reuertitur ad propria.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersHos globos ad Mathematicas artes promovendas manu propria à se caelatas luculentissime dedicat consacratque Jodocus Hondius ann.
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II | Edward Luther Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for proprium
/ (ˈprəʊprɪəm) /
Also called: property logic obsolete an attribute that is not essential to a species but is common and peculiar to it
Origin of proprium
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