Word Meanings - PRIORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.

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• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• 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.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• 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.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• DIGNITY
  digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• 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
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• INDIGNITY
  Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• CONDIGNITY
  Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.