Proprium and Accident bear the same relation to one another as Derivative and Empirical Laws: the predication of a proprium is a derivative law, and the predication of an accident is an empirical law.
Again, a proposition is called real or synthetic when the predicate is no part of the meaning of the subject; and, the subject being species, a proprium or accident is no part of its meaning or connotation.
Whilst, however, the rules of Logic have forbidden the inclusion of proprium or accident in a definition, in fact the definitions of Natural History often mention such attributes when characteristic.
If such reasoning is sound, colour is a proprium (and if so, it cannot logically be included in a definition; but it is better to be judicious than formal).
The simplest case is the establishing of a proprium as the direct consequence of some connoted attribute, as in the above example.
Thus, if increasing capacity for co-operation be a specific character of civilisation, 'great wealth' may be considered as a proprium of civilised as compared with barbarous nations.
Nil proprium ducas quod mutari potest=--Never deem that your own which can be changed.
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris=--It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
Punctum vitalitatis itaque in viventibus est tanquam a prima creatione continuata medullaris vitae ramificatio, cum ovum sit gemma medullaris matris a primordio viva, licet non sua ante proprium cor paternum.
A proprium is an attribute which is possessed by all the members of a class, and by them alone, e.
One which coincides in extension without coinciding in intension, that is, which applies to the same things without expressing the whole meaning, of the subject, is what is known as a Propriumor Peculiar Property.
But never instar veritatum, qua proprium can reason be rendered capable ipsius obiectum constituunt.
The difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, is only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.
The Proprium Sanctorum contains the lessons, psalms and liturgical formularies for saints' festivals, and depends on the days of the secular month.
The Proprium de Tempore contains the office of the seasons of the Christian year (Advent to Trinity), a conception that only gradually grew up.
The proprium of the will is self-love and that of the understanding is the pride of self-intelligence, and of these comes man's own prudence.
For the church establishes its teaching from the Word, but the world its teaching from the proprium; and the Word is God's, and the proprium is man's.
This is not the proprium that is meant, however, for it is only descriptive of the nature of man.
No one understands byproprium anything else than that he lives of himself and consequently thinks and wills of himself; but that there is no such proprium and indeed cannot be with anyone follows from what was said above.
His proprium is of his life, and what he does from his life he does in freedom.
No man, I said, has any proprium as the word is commonly understood.
I remarked that man has no proprium unless you want to call it his proprium that he is such or such a subject or organ or form.
For everyone wants to be his own, to be led by himself, and above all to think and will from himself; this is freedom itself, which appears as the proprium in which every person is.
All who are led by the Lord's divine providence are raised above the proprium and then see that all good and truth are from the Lord, indeed see that what in the human being is from the Lord is always the Lord's and never man's.
As man's proprium is nothing but evil, he also immerses the goods in his evil, by which they are destroyed like pearls thrown into dung or into acid.
The seed of the woman is the Lord, and the enmity set is between the love of man's proprium and the Lord, thus between man's own prudence and the Lord's divine providence.
Vocabulum (voco) is the instrument for calling or naming, a name: si res suum nomen et proprium vocabulum non habet, De Or.
To preserve intact the latter distinction, the propriumof the Son and His personal subsistence had to be kept distinct from the proprium and subsistence of the Father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proprium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
