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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..

Early :: Early (adv.) In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit..

Posterior :: Posterior (a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior..

A Priori :: A priori () Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible..

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..

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

Innate :: Innate (a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive..

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

Long :: Long (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest..

Transcendentalism :: Transcendentalism (n.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge..

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

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..

Subpubic :: Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Senior :: Senior (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade..

Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation; prior possession.

Priority :: Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.

Preremote :: Preremote (a.) More remote in previous time or prior order.

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..

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