proprietor

[ Fr.propriétaire = proprietary (q. v.). An owner; one who has the exclusive legal right or title to anything, whether in po e ion or not; a po e or in his own right. "To redre the injuries of the old proprietors ." Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xii. pro-pri-ě-tör-I-al, a . [Eng. proprietor ; -ial . ] Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary. "Proprietorial rights which have been implanted in the Irish soil."-London Daily Telegraph. pro-pri-ě-tor-ship, s. [Eng. proprietor; -ship.] The state or condition of a proprietor; the right of a proprietor. "He was convinced that peasant proprietorship was desirable."-London Evening Standard.