[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

proprietary \propri"etary\, n.; pl. proprietaries. l.
   proprietarius: cf. f. propri'etaire. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. a body proprietors, taken collectively.
      1913 webster

   3. eccl. a monk who had reserved goods and effects to
      himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the
      time of profession.
      1913 webster
see also:
proprietaries propriety proprietor 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

proprietary \propri"etary\, a. l. proprietarius.
   belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as
   property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
   1913 webster

   proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some
      person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell.
      --u. s. statutes.
      1913 webster
see also:
proprietary articles 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
nonproprietary proprietorship 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
marketroid open source 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
marketroid open-systems standard jargon file 

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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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Lars Kirmser's Music Trader - Proprietary Serial Number Instruments

http://www.musictrader.com/serialnos.html, score=98, date indexed=May 15, 2005, 7:36 am

Data Formats
...If your data is saved in a proprietary binary format, these simple tasks are complicated.....He would also have to own a tool which understands your particular idiosyncratic.....I shall NEVER keep my information in a proprietary binary format (such as Word..
http://www.podval.org/~sds/data.html, score=94, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 5:36 am

Database of American Proprietary Eponyms
...Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (product or service mark.....proprietary words contained on this site. DBAPE in no way endorses, approves, or claims.....American Proprietary Eponyms.. Database updated December 8, 1997 .. An eponym is a general..
http://www.prairienet.org/~rkrause/brands.html, score=94, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 11:55 pm

Proprietary software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...Proprietary software is any closed-source material which fundamentally means that the user.....Proprietary means that some individual or company holds the exclusive copyrights on a.....Hence software can remain proprietary even when source code is made publicly available, if..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software, score=88, date indexed=December 24, 2004, 8:18 pm

Proprietary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...Something proprietary is something exclusively owned by someone, often with connotations.....It may specifically mean that something is covered by one or more patents, as in.....Closed-source material is proprietary software which means, fundamentally, that you do not..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary, score=73, date indexed=January 20, 2005, 3:17 am

PAGB Internet Homepage
...Proprietary Association of Great Britain, Vernon House, Sicilian Avenue, London WC1A 2QS..
http://www.pagb.co.uk/, score=69, date indexed=October 5, 2005, 11:06 am

JILT: Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages
...Burk D L, 'Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages', 1998 (2) The Journal of Information.....Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages.. Dan L. Burk ..Associate Professor ..Seton Hall..
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/intprop/98_2burk/default.htm, score=69, date indexed=September 2, 2004, 7:25 am

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