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 Definitions for proprietary: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.
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2. A body proprietors, taken collectively.
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3. (Eccl.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to
himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
time of profession.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.]
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as
property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
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Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some
person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
--U. S. Statutes.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "proprietary":
balm, balsam, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust,
cestui que use, deedholder, dominion, dominium, drops, drug,
electuary, elixir, ethical drug, feoffee, feudatory, generic name,
herbs, householder, inhalant, laird, land tenure, landed,
landholding, landlady, landlord, landownership, landowning,
lincture, linctus, lord, lordship, master, materia medica,
medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine,
mesne, mesne lord, mistress, mixture, nonprescription drug,
officinal, overlordship, owner, ownership, patent medicine,
pharmacon, physic, possession, possessive, possessorship,
possessory, powder, preparation, prescription drug, propertied,
property, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, proprietor,
proprietorship, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, seigniory,
simples, sovereignty, squire, syrup, theraputant, tisane,
titleholder, vegetable remedies
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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proprietary adj. 1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product
imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's
own hardware or software designers. 2. In the language of hackers and
users, inferior; implies a product not conforming to open-systems
standards, and thus one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor
able to gouge freely on service and upgrade charges after the initial
sale has locked the customer in. Often used in the phrase "proprietary
crap". 3. Synonym for closed-source, e.g. software issued in binary
without source and under a restrictive license.
Since the coining of the term open source, many hackers have made a
conscious effort to distinguish between `proprietary' and `commercial'
software. It is possible for software to be commercial (that is,
intended to make a profit for the producers) without being proprietary.
The reverse is also possible, for example in binary-only freeware.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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proprietary
1. In marketroid-speak, superior; implies a product imbued
with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the
company's own hardware or software designers.
2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a
product not conforming to {open-systems} standards, and thus
one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor who can
inflate service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has
locked the customer in.
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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PROPRIETARY. In its strict sense, this word signifies one who is master of
his actions, and who has the free disposition of his property. During the
colonial government of Pennsylvania, William Penn was called the
proprietary.
2. The domain which William Penn and his family had in the state, was,
during the Revolutionary war, divested by the act of June 28, 1779, from
that family and vested in the commonwealth for the sum which the latter paid
to them of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling.
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