Definition of prior

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Prior (a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity..

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Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.
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..
Priority :: Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application..
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..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..
Former :: Former (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past..
Trancscendental :: Trancscendental (a.) In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experienc
Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori..
Preadamic :: Preadamic (a.) Prior to Adam.
Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation; prior possession.
Analogism :: Analogism (n.) an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.
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..
Anteriority :: Anteriority (n.) The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.
Senior :: Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade..
Preremote :: Preremote (a.) More remote in previous time or prior order.
Priorate :: Priorate (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior..
Subpubic :: Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Previous :: Previous (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness..
Apriority :: Apriority (n.) The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning..
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