| 单词 |
proprium |
| 释义 |
‖ proprium|ˈprəʊprɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[L., neut. sing. of proprius proper; in sense 1 a rendering Gr. ἴδιον (Aristotle).]
1. Logic.
a. = property n. 5 d.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 4 Of the fiue predicables, otherwise called the fiue common wordes, which are spoken of other... Genus. The generall worde. Species. The kinde, or speciall. Differentia. The difference. Proprium. The propertie. Accidens. The thing chauncing or cleauing to the substance. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. vi. (1701) 247/1 Proprium is that which declareth, not what a thing is, but is in it only, and Reciprocal with it. 1885Davidson Logic Definit. 46 A logical operation which..grasps the essence of a thing (to the exclusion of its accidents and propria).
b. An attribute essentially belonging to something, a distinctive characteristic; essential nature, selfhood.
1795tr. Swedenborg's Chr. Relig. §189. iv. (ed. 3) 220 Who⁓soever worshippeth Nature instead of God, or in Preference to God, and in Consequence of such Worship maketh himself, and his own Proprium, the Center and Fountain of his Thoughts. [Note] By Proprium, as here applied to Man, is meant his own Propriety, or all that he has of himself, when separated from Divine Influence. 1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. ii. (1864) 57 What we call their character is the majestic proprium of their personality. 1863H. James Subst. & Shadow xv. 256 Religion has had but one legitimate spiritual aim, namely: the softening of the self⁓hood or proprium which man derives from nature.
†2. Something given to a person for his own; a perquisite. Obs.
a1734North Lives (1826) I. 208 The allowing propriums to the attornies, in taxing of costs, was a very great abuse. |
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