Word Meanings - ADAPTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a suitable manner. Prior.
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- PRIORSHIP
The state or office of prior; priorate. - PRIORITY
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - PRIORATE
The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - PRIORESS
A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. - SUITABLE
Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; - PRIORY
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - PRIORLY
Previously. Geddes. - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - PRIOR
Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used (more info) compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - SUBPRIOR
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior. - APRIORISM
An a priori principle. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - APRIORITY
The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - A PRIORI
Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.