(1):
(n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
(4):
(a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.