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Definition: Prior |
PriorAdjective1. Earlier in time. Noun1. The head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prior" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Prior \Pri"or\, noun. [Old English priour, Old French priour, prior, priur, French prieur, from Latin prior former, superior. See Prior, adjective]. (references) |
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Arthur (A.N.) Prior (1914-1969) was one of the foremost logicians of the twentieth century.He was born in New Zealand. He became lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College in 1945, then Professor in 1953.
He became the John Locke lecturer in philosophy at the University of Oxford in 1966. From 1960 to 1966, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester. From 1966 until his death he was Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford.
He made contributions both to the history of logic and to modern formal techniques. A significant achievement was the foundation of tense logic. He also made important contributions to intensional logic, particularly in the influential posthumous work Objects of Thought.
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- Formal Logic (1955)
- Past, Present and Future (1967)
- Objects of Thought (1971)
- http://www.hum.auc.dk/prior/index2.htm
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prior
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Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 - September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat.Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax. It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow. In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.
It was an age when satirists sure of patronage and promotion. Montagu was promoted at once, and Prior three years later became secretary to the embassy at the Hague. After four years of this, he was appointed a gentleman of the king's bedchamber. Apparently, also, he acted as one of the king's secretaries, and in 1697 he was secretary to the plenipotentiaries who concluded the Peace of Ryswick. Prior's talent for affairs was doubted by Pope, who had no special means of judging, but it is not likely that King William would have employed in this important business a man who had not given proof of diplomatic skill and grasp of details.
The poet's knowledge of French is specially mentioned among his qualifications, and this was recognized by his being sent in the following year to Paris in attendance on the English ambassador. At this period Prior cotild say with good reason that "he had commonly business enough upon his hands, and was only a poet by accident." To verse, however, which had laid the foundation of his fortunes, he still occasionally trusted as a means of maintaining his position. His occasional poems during this period include an elegy on Queen Mary in 1695; a satirical version of Boileau's Ode sur le prise de Namur (1695); some lines on William's escape from assassination in 1696; and a brief piece called The Secretary.
After his return from France Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded Locke as a commissioner of trade. In 1701 he sat in parliament for East Grinstead. He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition Treaty; but when Somers, Orford and Halifax were impeached for their share in it he voted on the Tory side, and immediately on Anne's accession he definitely allied himself with Harley and St John. Perhaps in consequence of this for nine years there is no mention of his name in connexion with any public transaction. But when the Tories came into power in 1710 Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and till the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion, sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador. His share in negotiating the treaty of Utrecht, of which he is said to have disapproved, personally led to its popular nickname of "Matt's Peace."
When the queen died and the Whigs regained power he was impeached by Robert Walpole and kept in close custody for two years (1715-1717). In 1709 he had already published a collection of verse. During this imprisonment, maintaining his cheerful philosophy, he wrote his longest humorous poem, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. This, along with his most ambitious work, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, was published by subscription in 1718. The sum received for this volume (4000 guineas), with a present of £4000 from Lord Harley, enabled him to live in comfort; but he did not long survive his enforced retirement from public life, although he bore his ups and downs with rare equanimity. He died at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, a seat of the earl of Oxford, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where his monument may be seen in Poet's Corner. A History of his Own Time was issued by J Bancks in 1740. The book pretended to be derived from Prior's papers, but it is doubtful how far it should be regarded as authentic.
Prior's poems show considerable variety, a pleasant scholarship and great executive skill. The most ambitious, i.e. Solomon, and the paraphrase of the Nut-Brown Maid, are the least successful. But Alma, an admitted imitation of Samuel Butler, is a delightful piece of wayward easy humour, full of witty turns and well-remembered allusions, and Prior's mastery of the octo-syllabic couplet is greater than that of Jonathan Swift or Pope. His tales in rhyme, though often objectionable in their themes, are excellent specimens of narrative skill; and as an epigrammatist he is unrivalled in English. The majority of his love songs are frigid and academic, mere wax-flowers of Parnassus; but in familiar or playful efforts, of which the type are the admirable lines To a Child of Quality, he has still no rival. "Prior's"--says Thackeray, himself no mean proficient in this kind--"seem to me amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems. Horace is always in his mind, and his song and his philosophy, his good sense, his happy easy turns and melody, his loves and his Epicureanism, bear a great resemblance to that most delightful and accomplished master."
The largest collection of Prior's verses is that by R Brimley Johnson in the "Aldine Poets" (2 vols., 1892). There is also a selection in the "Parchment Library," with introduction and notes by Austin Dobson (1889).
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- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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A priory is a monastery governed by a prior or prioress. An alien priory is a priory which is dependent on a foreign mother house, and an alien priory cell was a residence of two or three monks dependent on a foreign mother house but sent to exploit a distant estate. Alien priory cells were suppressed in 1414.The head of a priory is called a prior.
Strictly speaking a priory is a secondary house created by an existing abbey, but this distinction fell out of use in late mediaeval times.
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Synonyms: PriorSynonyms: anterior (adj), prior(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite. |
Precedence | Phrase: seniores priores; prior tempore prior jure. |
Adjective: preceding; Verb: precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory. | |
Precursor | Adjective: precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent; (prior). |
Priority | Phrase: prior tempore prior jure. |
Adverb: before, prior to; earlier; previously; Adjective: afore, aforehand, beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then, before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of. | |
Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory). | |
Time | Till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prior |
| English words defined with "prior": Claustral prior, Conventical prior. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prior": diffuse prior ♦ informative prior ♦ Prior converted wetland, prior permission ♦ vague prior. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prior": Spearmint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prior" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (prior), Hungarian (prior), Latin (ahead, ancestors, basic, earlier, elder monk, forefathers, former, head of priory, in front, leading, people of an earlier time, preceding, predecessors, previous, prior, prioress, second in dignity to abbot, superior), Portuguese (prelate, priest, prior), Spanish (prior), Swedish (prior), Welsh (prior). |
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Screenplays | For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) So you mean that he prefer friendship prior to love (Liten film, En; writing credit: Robert Gustafsson; Jonas Inde) | |
Lyrics | Which prior to that time had been practiced only furtively by a remote tribe in the Andes who passed the secret down from father to son as part of their oral tradition (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Prior to the Leap Into Space (1958) | |
Song Titles | Accappella Stella (performing artist: Maddy Prior) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Matthew Prior | They talk most who have the least to say. |
| Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. | |
| Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. | |
| Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? | |
| Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. | |
| Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. | |
| And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. | |
| They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The obligation of Germany to make such payment shall be taken into account by the Reparation Commission, and for the purpose of this payment Germany may create a prior charge upon her assets or revenues upon such detailed terms as shall be agreed to by the Reparation Commission. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. (reference) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | If the individual indicates, prior to or during questioning, that he wishes to remain silent, the interrogation must cease; if he states that he wants an attorney, the questioning must cease until an attorney is present. (reference) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The retina prior to focal laser treatment. (references) | |
NO specimens accepted without prior consultation. (references) | ||
Prior antibiotic treatment can prevent recovery of the organism. (references) | ||
Business | Prior to final negotiations, the purchasing office issues a draft contract. (references) | |
Polish banks require the importer to deposit funds prior to issuance of a Letter of Credit. (references) | ||
Footwear does not require special certifications prior to being imported or sold in Poland. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | Street children were arrested and detained regularly by police prior to being placed in these programs. (references) |
India | In July the NHRC coordinated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for a medical student who had lost his sight just prior to his final exams. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Czech Republic | Churches registered prior to 1991, such as the small Jewish community, are not required to meet these conditions. (references) |
Economic History | Italy | No claim of prior use can be made after the registered mark is 5 years old. (references) |
Luxembourg | It also maintains an inter-exchangeable currency with Belgium, prior to full implementation of the Euro in January 2002. Additionally, Luxembourg is the focal point of the Saar-Lor-Lux area, comprising Germany's Saarbrucken region, France's Lorraine region and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. (references) | |
Luxembourg | Payments and transfers require no prior authorization. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | Many persons with prior criminal records reportedly have been incorporated into police ranks, either using false names or identification or with recommendations from other state institutions, such as the army. (references) |
Syria | In June 2000, prior to the November 2000 prison amnesty, Amnesty International estimated that there were approximately 1,500 political detainees in the country; many of the detainees reportedly are suspected supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the pro-Iraqi wing of the Ba'th party. (references) | |
Malta | In 2000 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Government had violated articles 5/3 and 5/4 of the European Convention on Human Rights by holding a Tunisian citizen in custody for 2 years prior to trial, thereby denying the accused prompt due process. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references) |
India | No rubber, wax, ivory, or other forest products may be removed from the protected areas without prior authorization. (references) | |
Minorities | Estonia | In 1999 the Government dropped the immigration quota on the issuance of residence permits to those noncitizens who settled in the country prior to July 1, 1990, and who did not depart the country subsequently. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Telecommunications: Spain liberalized its telecommunications market beginning in 1998. Prior to this date, the government phased in competition in basic telephony through licenses granted to privatized second operator Retevision and to third operator Lince/Uni2 (France Telecom), in addition to incumbent operator Telefonica. (references) |
UKRAINE | Foreign exchange related restrictions have produced hardships for U.S. firms doing business with Ukraine . U.S. exporters are reluctant to ship goods without prior payment, while U.S. businesses operating in Ukraine, many of which are highly dependent on imports, have had difficulties in getting inputs needed for their operations. (references) | |
Indonesia | The security forces inconsistently enforced a no-tolerance policy against flying the Papuan flag, tearing down and destroying flags and flag poles, and killing eight persons, and beating others who tried to raise or protect the flag prior to the signing into law of the Papua Special Autonomy Law, which permits the flying of the flag as a cultural symbol. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | Eight parties were barred from competing because they were registered less than 1 year prior to the announcement of elections. (references) |
Kazakhstan | In October 1999, the President and the Parliament passed, without any prior public notice, a series of 19 constitutional amendments that enabled them to call early presidential elections. (references) | |
Tanzania | The authorities forcibly dispersed a number of political rallies during the period prior to and after the 2000 elections. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Exemptions from specific marking requirements may include: articles that cannot be marked prior to shipment without injury or at prohibitive expense; crude substances, crude products, and products imported for use by the importer and not for resale in its imported form; or products produced 20 or more years ago. (references) |
Zambia | Thus prior to importation, persons intending to, should seek authority in writing detailing the goods, value, purposes for importing and duration of stay in Zambia. (references) | |
Australia | Certain medical equipment also must be approved prior to use. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The visa may be extended at the discretion of the Saudi Embassy or Consulate prior to the expiration date. (references) |
Thailand | U.S. citizens carrying diplomatic, official or tourist passports do not require a visa for a visit of up to 30 days when arriving at the international airport in Bangkok, Phuket, Hat Yai or Chiang Mai, if the individual is in possession of an onward/return airline ticket . This airport permit to stay may, for a fee, be extended twice for a period up to 90 days . However, if an individual will remain in the country for more than 30 days, it is recommended that he/she obtain the appropriate visa at a Thai Embassy or Consulate prior to arrival. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Expatriates residing and working in Saudi Arabia may not depart the country without obtaining an exit permit prior to leaving and an exit/reentry permit if they intend to return to Saudi Arabia. (references) | |
Women | Mauritania | The change in figures appears to reflect both prior overestimation and a significant decline in the practice in recent years. (references) |
Qatar | There also have been complaints that citizen husbands take their foreign spouses' passports and, without prior approval, turn them in for Qatari citizenship documents. (references) | |
Peru | The victims also have accused judges of looking more favorably on rape victims who were virgins prior to the rape and of believing that a woman who was raped must have enticed her attacker. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Congo | However, legal strikes rarely occur because the law requires unions to have prior consent and to adhere to lengthy mandatory arbitration and appeal procedures. (references) |
India | Trade unions often exercise the right to strike, but public sector unions are required to give at least 14 days' notice prior to striking. (references) | |
India | Workers may establish and join unions of their own choosing without prior authorization. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?" "Ay," said the officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast." "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth." |
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Alexander Benedetto | Right. I say that only because Lois had told me two days prior that people were after her and she was feeling uncomfortable on the island and that the locals were not taking well to her. |
House Minority Whip David Bonior | Well, I think we needed to resolve this before we got here this week, obviously, and this was in the making for a number of weeks prior to the decision that was made here. I'm glad that it's in the past, I'm glad it's behind us. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | For too long prior to my Administration, many of our Nation's basic human and social needs were being ignored or handled insensitively by the Federal government. |
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| "Prior" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.48% of the time. "Prior" is used about 1,411 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 69.48% | 980 | 7,467 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.18% | 285 | 17,262 |
| Adverb (general) | 10.34% | 146 | 26,107 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,411 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "prior" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Prior | Last name | 2,000 | 5,297 |
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Expressions using "prior": Claustral prior ♦ Conventical prior ♦ Conventual prior ♦ diffuse prior ♦ have a prior claim to smth. ♦ informative prior ♦ loss brought forward from prior year ♦ prior approval ♦ prior bond ♦ prior charge ♦ prior concession ♦ prior condition ♦ prior informed consent ♦ prior informed consent(PIC) ♦ Prior Lake ♦ prior permission ♦ prior right ♦ prior tempore prior jure ♦ prior to ♦ prior to this ♦ prior warning ♦ prior year items ♦ vague prior ♦ without the prior consent of. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prior": prior-provincial, Prior-to-broadway, prior-year. | |
Ending with "prior": sub-prior. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "prior"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voormalige (ex-, former, last, previous), vroeëre (ex-, former, last, previous). (various references) | |
Albanian | prioritar, paraprak (anticipatory, precautionary, preliminary, preparatory), kryemurg (abbot), igumen, i parë kuvendi, i mëparshëm (antecedent, anterior, foregoing, former, neoteric, previous). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسبق (beforehand, predestination, previous), مدة رئاسة الديرة, له الحق في, قبل (accede, accept, admit, agree to, approve of, assent, be accepted, before, concede, consent, fore, in front of, kiss, ok, okay, okey, previous, previously, sanction, settle for, subscribe, take, until), سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, fore, foregoing, former, harbinger, last, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, quondam, race), رئيس الديرة, رئاسة الديرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който има предимство, глава на духовен орден, предшествуващ (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, foregoing, precedent, precursory, previous), приор, по-раншен (previous), по-важен (major), помощник-абат, помощник-игумен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 预先, 預先 (beforehand), 事先 (before, in advance), 先 (early, first, former, in advance). (various references) | |
Czech | převor, přednostní (preferential), předešlý (previous, the last), dřívìjší (antecedent, anterior, former, one time). (various references) | |
Danish | forbigangen (former, last, previous). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorgaand (former, last, previous), voorafgaand (former, last, preliminary, preparatory, previous), verleden (former, last, past, previous). (various references) | |
Esperanto | prepara (preliminary, preparatory), antaŭa (former, last, previous). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشین (Antecedent, Fore, Former, Olden, Previous, Primeval, Primitive, Pristine), مقدم (Antecedent, First, Preferential, Premier(Re), Previous), قبلی (Fore, Predecessor, Previous), جلوی (Fore, Former, Forward), اسبق (Predecessor), رءیس صومعه . (various references) | |
Finnish | luostarinesimies (father superior), luostarilupaus (father superior). (various references) | |
French | précédent (precede, precedent, preceding, previous). (various references) | |
Frisian | foarig (former, last, previous). (various references) | |
German | früher (ahead, antecedent, before, earlier, former, formerly, in the past, previous, previously, quondam, sometime, sooner). (various references) | |
Greek | πρότεροσ (fore, former, previous, quondam), πριν (afore, ago, before, beforehand, ere, preparatory to, previous to), προγενέστεροσ (anterior, previous), ηγούμενοσ (abbot, superior). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קודם (antecedent, anterior, before, beforehand, foregoing, forerunner, former, preceding, previous, previously), ראש מנזר (abbot, superior). (various references) | |
Hungarian | perjel (provost). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lebih dulu (anterior, anticipatory, before, earlier), dulu (before, first, formerly, previously). (various references) | |
Italian | prioritario, priore, precedente (foregoing, former, late, precedent, preceding, previous, record, sometime), anteriore (anterior, fore, foregoing, former, forward, front, preceding), ancor prima (earlier, former, formerly, past). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 事前 (beforehand, in advance), 先 (destination, end, former, head, late, nozzle, objective, old, point, precedence, previous, priority, remainder, sequel, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip), 修院長 (abbot, prelate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅういんちょう (abbot, prelate), さき (destination, end, following, former, head, nozzle, objective, point, previous, remainder, sequel, small peninsula, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip, undermentioned), じぜん (beforehand, charity, in advance, philanthropy, second best). (various references) | |
Korean | 먼저. (various references) | |
Manx | rolaue (aforethought, beforehand), priorey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iorpray.(various references) | |
Polish | przedni (former, last, previous), poprzedni (former, last, previous). (various references) | |
Portuguese | precedente (ci-devant, foregone, former, last, precedent, preceding, previous), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, erstwhile, first, fore, former, front, last, preceding, previous, whilom), antecedente (antecedent, foregone, former, last, previous). (various references) | |
Romanian | precedent (above, example, foregoing, last, precedent, preceding, previous), stareţ (abbot), mai important, egumen, arhimandrit (archimandrite), anterior (above, anterior, fore, foregoing, former, formerly, prevenient, previous, prior to). (various references) | |
Russian | настоятель, более важный, прежний (ci-devant, erstwhile, former, late), предшествующий (aforegoing, antecedent, antecedental, anterior, foregoing, preexisting, previous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | raniji (antecedent, earlier, former, past), iguman. (various references) | |
Spanish | pasada (former, last, pass, passade, past, previous, row, turn), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, before, earlier, fore, former, formerly, front, past, preceding, previous). (various references) | |
Swedish | tidigare (antecedent, anterior, former, further back, heretofore, in the past, late, one time, onetime, previous, previously, sometime). (various references) | |
Turkish | tarikat ileri geleni, sabık (earlier, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, previous, quondam, sometime), manastır başrahibi, kıdemli (elder, highly placed, senior, vet, veteran), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran), dini kuruluş yetkilisi, öncelikli (indispensable, of first priority, of top priority, predecessor, preferential, preferred, privileged, underlying), önceki (antecedent, anterior, before, ex, ex-, foregoing, former, hereinabove, last, old, onetime, pre-, preceding, previous, pristine, pro-, quondam, sometime, the former), önce (above, afore, ago, ante, ante-, back, before, early, ere, first, firstly, in advance, pre-, prior to, pro-). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | колишній (ancient, departed, erstwhile, foregone, former, lapsed, late, old, olden, once, one time, overpast, pristine, quondam), глава фірми, важливіший (major), настоятель, заздалегідний, апріорний (a priory, antecedent), пріор, попередній (aforegoing, first, foregoing, head, precedent, preceding, precursive, precursory, preliminary, previous, tentative). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trưởng tu viện, trước (ahead, before, former, preceding, previously), $prior to$ trước khi. (various references) | |
Welsh | prior. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praepositus, praepositus prepositus, prepositus, prior, prior, prius, priora, priore, priorem, priores, priori, prioribus, prioris, priorum, prius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 35 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H tiV proedwken autw kai antapodoqhsetai autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aut quis prior dedit illi et retribuetur ei |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | "Hwa gæf God a ænig þingþæt God him sceal forgieldan?" |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And it schal be quyt to hym? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Other who hath geven vnto him fyrst that he myght be recompensed agayne? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 35 |
| Cebuano | "O kinsa bay nakahatag kaniyag gasa aron kaulian siyag balus?" |
| Chinese | 誰 是 先 給 了 他 、 使 他 後 來 償 還 呢 。 |
| Croatian | Ili: tko ga darom preteèe da bi mu se uzvratiti moralo? |
| Danish | eller hvem gav ham først, så at der skulde gives ham Gengæld derfor? |
| Dutch | Of wie heeft Hem eerst gegeven, en het zal hem wedervergolden worden? |
| Finnish | Tai kuka on ensin antanut hänelle jotakin, joka olisi tälle korvattava? |
| French | Qui lui a donné le premier, pour qu`il ait à recevoir en retour? |
| German | Oder wer hat ihm etwas zuvor gegeben, daß ihm werde wiedervergolten? |
| Hungarian | Avagy kicsoda adott elõbb néki, hogy annak visszafizesse azt? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Siapakah pernah memberi sesuatu kepada Tuhan sehingga bisa menuntut balasan-Nya?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Atau siapakah yang terlebih dahulu sudah memberi Dia apa-apa, supaya dibalas-Nya pula? |
| Italian | O chi gli ha dato qualcosa per primo, sì che abbia a riceverne il contraccambio? |
| Maori | Ko ta wai hoki kua matua hoatu ki a ia, a ka whakahokia mai he utu ki a ia? |
| Norwegian | Eller hvem gav ham noget først, så han skulde få vederlag igjen? |
| Portuguese | Ou quem lhe deu primeiro a ele, para que lhe seja recompensado? |
| Rumanian | Cine I -a dat ceva kntki, ca sq aibq de primit knapoi?`` |
| Shuar | Yaki Niin pénkeran susa shiira nujai yapajniuit?" Tu aarmaiti. |
| Spanish | ¿O quién le ha dado a él primero para que sea recompensado por él? |
| Swahili | Au, nani aliyempa yeye kitu kwanza hata aweze kulipwa tena kitu hicho?" |
| Swedish | Eller vem har först givit honom något, som han alltså bör betala igen?" |
| Uma | "Hema to mpowai' -i ba napa-napa, alaa-na ma'ala-ra merapi' hiwili-na!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prior": priorate, priorates, prioress, prioresses, priories, priorities, prioritization, prioritizations, prioritize, prioritized, prioritizes, prioritizing, priority, priorly, priors, priorship, priorships, priory. (additional references) | |
Words containing "prior": apriorities, apriority. (additional references) | |
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"Prior" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apriori, pario, perifra, periof, phior, Pibor, picor, Pirart, Piriou, Pirjo, Piro, Pirot, Pirou, Pirro, pivor, prao, praod, prear, preeo, preo, preord, preori, preux, prho, pria, pribor, prieo, Priko, prioe, Priok, prion, priore, privo, proar, proie, proil, proir, proiri, pror, Prozor, pryo, pryr, prysor, Pyrford, rior, sprior. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prior" (pronounced prī"er) |
| 4 | p r ī" er | prier, pryer. |
| 3 | -r ī" er | drier, dryer, briar, brier, crier, friar, frier, fryer, Trier. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-p-r-r" | |
-2 letters: poi, pro, rip. | |
-3 letters: op, or, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: priors, priory, ropier. | |
+2 letters: airdrop, airport, pierrot, porkier, pornier, preriot, primero, priorly, prosier, prurigo, ripcord, roupier. | |
+3 letters: airdrops, airports, airpower, airproof, croupier, droopier, implorer, importer, improper, improver, overripe, pierrots, piriform, porridge, porridgy, portiere, portlier, portrait, previsor, primeros, primrose, priorate, prioress, priories, priority, prisoner, profiler, profiter, progeria, promiser, promisor, provider, proviral, provirus, prurigos, pyriform, pyrrolic, raindrop, reimport, ripcords, roperies, sportier, superior, trimorph. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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