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Word Meanings - UNCHAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free from chains or slavery; to let loose. Prior.

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  • PRIORSHIP
    The state or office of prior; priorate.
  • LOOSE
    laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • 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.
  • LOOSESTRIFE
    The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
  • SLAVERY
    1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
  • LOOSENESS
    The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
  • LOOSELY
    In a loose manner.
  • 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
  • LOOSENER
    One who, or that which, loosens.
  • 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.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • APRIORISM
    An a priori principle.
  • ANTISLAVERY
    Opposed to slavery. -- n.
  • OUTLOOSE
    A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
  • APRIORITY
    The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
  • PROSLAVERY
    Favoring slavery. -- n.

 

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