(a) Belonging or pertaining to oneself, a person, or a thing; privately owned; private, personal, individual; intrinsic; (b) ~ in, inherent in (a position of honor); ~ to, belonging to (oneself); ~ godes, ~ thing, private property; maken ~ to, to appropriate (sth.) to (oneself) as private property; (c) with genitive constructions: a person's (soul's, social group's, etc.) own or private (possessions, authority, body, etc.); -- frequently with ouen as intensifier; (d) ~ wille, a person's (one's, God's) own desire or intention; a person's private desire, esp. as contrasted to the divine will or purpose; (e) directed toward oneself; ~ love, self-love; ~ exaltacioun, exaltation of self; (f) med. of a pathological condition or its cause: arising by itself, idiopathic; (g) his (thin) ~ persoune, himself (yourself); in (his, thin, etc.) ~ persoune, in person, oneself (himself, yourself, etc.) [see also persoune n.(1) 3. (b) & (c)]; in his ~ being, in itself, inherently.

(a) Belonging or pertaining to a person or thing in particular, special, specific; distinctive, characteristic; (b) ~ kinde (nature), special or characteristic nature; ~ use, characteristic or habitual practice; (c) separate, distinct; ~ nekke, either of two tubes branching from a common tube; the ~ organ, the organ proper, the organ itself; (d) ~ to, pertaining especially to (sth.), specific to; specifically applicable to; characteristic of (sb. or sth.); (e) ~ prest (confessour), a priest having ordinary or delegated jurisdiction to hear one's confession; a priest attendant upon a particular person or household.

(a) Gram. ~ noun, a proper noun; the name of a particular person, place, or thing; ~ name, the proper noun naming a person or place; -- said of Pater as the name of the first person of the Trinity; (b) eccl. ~ sanctorum, a listing of mass propers for specific feast days of the Church year.

(a) Correct, appropriate, proper [sometimes difficult to distinguish from 2a. (a), to which some of the following quots. may belong]; ~ for (to), appropriate for (sth.); ~ to, of an expression of gratitude: due to (Christ); sup. proprest, most correct, strictest; (b) conforming to fact or the precise meaning of a word, real, genuine.

(a) A term of approbation, indicating that a person or thing is as he or it should be; commendable, goodly, excellent; -- also iron.; (b) of good appearance.

?As adv.: properly, in a correct or due manner.