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1. Maths logic (of a relation) distinguished from a weaker relation by excluding the case where the relata are identical. For example, every set is a subset of itself, but a proper subset must exclude at least one member of the containing set
2. the parts of the Mass that vary according to the particular day or feast on which the Mass is celebrated


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This is how Calvin earned his propers as the founder of Western-style capitalism.
Approved Propers for Florence Li Tim Oi, the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion (who spent her last years in an Anglican parish in Toronto), and Emily Ayckbown, founder of the Community of Sisters of the Church (Anglican) established in England, whose first overseas venture was in Canada.
But the equally frisky lesbian culture of that era did not get its propers until the turn of the 21st century, when out former academic Sarah Waters [see page 59] began turning her knowledge of lesbian lore (and Victorian porn) into a series of compulsively readable novels, the first being 1999's Tipping the Velvet.
 
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