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Word Meanings - PREKNOWLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prior knowledge.

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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.
  • PRIORATE
    The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
  • PRIORESS
    A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
  • 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
  • PRIORLY
    Previously. Geddes.
  • 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
  • KNOWLEDGE
    The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • SUBPRIOR
    The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • UNKNOWLEDGED
    Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
  • ACKNOWLEDGER
    One who acknowledges.
  • APRIORISM
    An a priori principle.
  • FOREKNOWLEDGE
    Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
  • APRIORITY
    The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
  • DISACKNOWLEDGE
    To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.
  • SELF-KNOWLEDGE
    Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
  • INTERKNOWLEDGE
    Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.
  • 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.
  • ACKNOWLEDGEDLY
    Confessedly.

 

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