ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Proprietarial

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Proprietarial is an adjective meaning Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).

Meaning

Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).

More Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Proprietary or proprietorial; pertaining to property or ownership (of property).

Example Sentences

In Charleston, the aftermath of the Yamassee War was one of reorganization, regulation and a massive political shift as the colony moved from proprietarial control to become a royal colony.
They extended the proprietarial and contractual provisions of emerging commercial law to seize local peasant debtors as slaves, [...] ‘Proprietarial’ interests in both outsiders and local debtors, commercialized for purposes of negotiability, thus appeared several millennia ago in Mesopotamia. However, to construe these atypical transactions [...] as defining of ‘slavery’, would then indulge the selective fallacy of origins — in relation to modern thoroughly proprietarial slavery [...]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proprietorial, proprietory, proprietary, patrimonial, proprietive, paternalist.

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