Word Meanings - THRUMWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of amaranth . Dr. Prior.

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• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• AMARANTH
  A genus of ornamental annual plants of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. 2. A color inclining to purple. (more info) its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with
• 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.
• AMARANTHINE
  1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope. 2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper. 3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan.
• 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
• AMARANTHUS; AMARANTUS
  See AMARANTH
• 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.