Word Meanings - APRIORISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An a priori principle.

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.
PRINCIPLE
Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative
APRIORISM
An a priori principle.
HIGH-PRINCIPLED
Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
APRIORITY
The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
UNPRINCIPLE
To destroy the moral principles of.
UNPRINCIPLED
Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle. -- Un*prin"ci*pled*ness, n.
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.