Definition of prior

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Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage..

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Posteriority :: Posteriority (n.) The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority..
Antedate :: Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Senior :: Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade..
Sensorium :: Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations..
Prior :: Prior (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage..
Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.
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..
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori..
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
Priorate :: Priorate (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior..
Unprecedented :: Unprecedented (a.) Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance..
Admission :: Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..
Vaccine :: Vaccine (n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques..
Subpubic :: Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college..
Priority :: Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application..
A Priori :: 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..
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