PROPRIETY
\pɹəpɹˈa͡ɪ͡ətɪ], \pɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ], \p_ɹ_ə_p_ɹ_ˈaɪə_t_ɪ]\
Definitions of PROPRIETY
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- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
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- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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State of being proper or right: agreement with established principles or customs: fitness: accuracy: peculiar right of possession, property.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).