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Pre- :: Pre- () A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent..

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

Previousness :: Previousness (n.) The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

Prior :: Prior (a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity..

Preengagement :: Preengagement (n.) Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection..

Place :: Place (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling..

Unprecedented :: Unprecedented (a.) Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.

Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

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..

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

A Posteriori :: A posteriori () Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning..

Preemptioner :: Preemptioner (n.) One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land.

Regulative :: Regulative (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty..

Preadamic :: Preadamic (a.) Prior to Adam.

Rather :: Rather (a.) Prior; earlier; former.

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college..

Priory :: Priory (n.) 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..

Already :: Already (adv.) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously..

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..

Apriority :: Apriority (n.) The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning..

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