'Proprietary' definitions:
Definition of 'proprietary'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
noun
An unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits [syn: proprietorship, proprietary]
Definition of 'Proprietary'
From: GCIDE
- Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, 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]
Definition of 'Proprietary'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [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]
Synonyms of 'proprietary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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