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Proper
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What's The Definition Of Proper?
[adj] appropriate for a condition or occasion; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position"
[adj] marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" Synonyms | Synonyms for Proper: appropriate | becoming | comely | comme il faut | correct | decent | decorous | fitting | kosher | priggish | prim | prissy | prudish | puritanical | right | seemly | square-toed | straightlaced | straitlaced | suitable | tight-laced | victorian Related Terms | Find terms related to Proper: See Also | Proper In Webster's Dictionary \Prop"er\, a. [OE. propre, F. propre, fr. L. proprius.
Cf. {Appropriate}.]
1. Belonging to one; one's own; individual. ``His proper
good'' [i. e., his own possessions]. --Chaucer. ``My
proper son.'' --Shak.
Now learn the difference, at your proper cost,
Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. --Dryden.
2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution;
peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his
proper instincts and appetites.
Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which
constitute our proper humanity. --Coleridge.
3. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all
respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the
proper element for fish; a proper dress.
The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All
proper to the spring, and sprightly May. --Dryden.
4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic]
``Thou art a proper man.'' --Chaucer.
Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents,
because they saw he was a proper child. --Heb. xi.
23.
5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the
whole; not appellative; -- opposed to {common}; as, a
proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper;
the garden proper.
7. (Her.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any
object used as a charge.
{In proper}, individually; privately. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
{Proper flower} or {corolla} (Bot.), one of the single
florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower.
{Proper fraction} (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator
is less than the denominator.
{Proper nectary} (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals
and other parts of the flower. -- {Proper noun} (Gram.), a
name belonging to an individual, by which it is
distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to
{common noun}; as, John, Boston, America.
{Proper perianth} or {involucre} (Bot.), that which incloses
only a single flower.
{Proper receptacle} (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only
a single flower or fructification.
\Prop"er\, adv. Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good. [Colloq & Vulgar] |
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