(a) Ownership, possession, property right; also, right to the ransom of a prisoner; (b) private or individual ownership; in ~, by individual property right, as private property; under peine of ~, on penalty of the punishment for private ownership; (c) fig. haven no ~, to have no place (in the virtuous life).

(a) Land or goods owned, property; a piece of land, a possession; (b) private property; (c) a thing belonging or pertaining to an individual and thus separating him from God; (d) a thing to be bestowed, benefit of God or nature.

(a) An appurtenance of a thing; (b) ?an appurtenance for a play, ?stage property; (c) a constituent part of a thing.

Nature, quality; distinctive or individual character; characteristic or appropriate manner of acting: (a) of a person, God, Christ, an angel, etc.: (b) of a thing, animal, activity, illness, etc.

A quality, characteristic, an attribute; distinctive quality; characteristic or customary action; -- often pl.; physical attribute, point of beauty; also, beauty: (a) of a person, soul, God, angel, etc.; (b) of a thing, an animal, abstraction, age, etc.; (c) maister of propretees, Bartholomeus Anglicus, author of De Proprietatibus Rerum.

The active property of a medicine or an herb, ability to produce a certain effect, particular manner of action.

(a) Meaning or proper signification of a word; (b) significance of a remark; (c) details of a story or report, particulars; (d) in ~, ?in particular, ?in regard.

(a) Propriety, fitness; (b) error for propre adj., sense 2a. (a).