Word Meanings - UNCHAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To free from chains or slavery; to let loose. Prior.
Related words: (words related to UNCHAIN)
- 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.