Word Meanings - RATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.

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• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• 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.
• FORMER
  1. One who forms; a maker; a creator. A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. A cutting die.
• 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
• FORMERET
  One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
• 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
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• PHASING TRANSFORMER
  Any of several transformers for changing phase.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• AUTOTRANSFORMER
  A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• REFORMER
  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. (more info) 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer
• TRANSFORMER
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• TESLA COIL; TESLA TRANSFORMER
  A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.
• PERFORMER
  One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.