Hypertext Webster Gateway: "proprietary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.]
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as
property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
{Proprietary articles}, manufactured articles which some
person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
--U. S. Statutes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
proprietary
adj : protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or
produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights;
"`Tylenol' is a proprietary drug of which
`acetaminophen' is the generic form" [ant: {nonproprietary}]
n : an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is
responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its
profits [syn: {proprietorship}]
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