Word Meanings - VERSEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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
SUBPRIOR
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
APRIORISM
An a priori principle.
APRIORITY
The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
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.