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Word Meanings - FEABERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gooseberry. Prior.

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  • 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.
  • GOOSEBERRY
    Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly
  • 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.

 

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