proprietarial
/pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/US/pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.əl/
proprietarial adjective: pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
Adjective
proprietarial
- Pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
- 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.2015, Timothy Paul Grady, Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650–1725, Routledge, →ISBN, page 140
- Proprietary or proprietorial; pertaining to property or ownership (of property).
- 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....2008, Enrico Dal Lago, Constantina Katsari, Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 76
Origin of proprietarial
Perhaps proprietary + -al influenced by proprietorial, or perhaps a variant of the latter influenced by the former.
Words formed from proprietarial
Words that rhyme with proprietarial
- aerial
- ariel
- glossarial
- emissarial
- filarial
- furcocercarial
- nareal
- notarial
- secretarial
- vicarial
- anticercarial
- antifilarial
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- antimalarial
- antimicrofilarial
- apothecarial
- aquarial
- areal
- Arial
- biareal
- bibliothecarial
- bipinnarial
- bursarial
- calendarial
- calvarial
- cancellarial
- cercarial
- cibarial
- circumnarial
- commentarial
- commissarial
- conarial
- corollarial
- diarial
- dictionarial
- dirofilarial
- dissepimentarial
- estuarial
- extraovarial
- fusarial
- garial
- germarial
- gharial
- herbarial
- impresarial
- interareal
- intergermarial
- internarial
- intracalvarial
- intranarial
- intrapuparial
- kalendarial
- librarial
- macrofilarial
- malarial
- metacercarial
- microfilarial
- miliarial
- monetarial
- narial
- nectareal
Questions about proprietarial
- What does proprietarial mean?
- Proprietarial means pertaining to proprietarians or proprietarianism (in colonial North America).
- What part of speech is proprietarial?
- Proprietarial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce proprietarial?
- Proprietarial is pronounced /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.əl/ (UK).
Words near proprietarial in the dictionary
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