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Innate :: Innate (a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive..

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance..

Priorship :: Priorship (n.) The state or office of prior; priorate.

Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation; prior possession.

Senior :: Senior (a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel..

Antecedency :: Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

Anteriority :: Anteriority (n.) The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.

Subpubic :: Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.

Antedate :: Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Apriority :: Apriority (n.) The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning..

Senior :: Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade..

Priorate :: Priorate (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior..

Long :: Long (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest..

Provocation :: Provocation (n.) Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress..

Posteriority :: Posteriority (n.) The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority..

Apriorism :: Apriorism (n.) An a priori principle.

Regulative :: Regulative (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty..

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