Prior is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRIOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one in charge of a priory, ranking second to abbot
• a previous criminal conviction
• a man who is head of a house or group of houses of certain religious orders.
• the man next in rank below an abbot.
• the head of a house of friars.
• the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
• head monk in a priory
ADJECTIVE:
• previous
• existing or coming before in time, order, or importance
• Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
• The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
• earlier in time
• earlier
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an officer in a monastery

Words related to PRIOR

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Words that contain PRIOR

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How to use PRIOR in a sentence

• It would be difficult to find another writer, prior to Locke, whose works are enriched with so many just observations on mere intellectual phenomena.
• In all effects that are voluntary, the cause must be prior to the effect, as the father is to the son in human generation.
• He argued, on the other hand, that such ways of looking at phenomena must originate in the mind, and be prior to the experience which confirms them.
• I have been obliged to rely mainly on these collections of early documents as my authorities, especially for that portion of western history prior to 1783.
• Cherrie and Miller had spent a week there collecting mammals and birds prior to my arrival at Asuncion.
• Nevertheless, the movements of both parties, prior to the investment and siege of Sebastopol, are fair subjects for military criticism with respect to the plans of operation.
• He professed the following year under father Fray Augustin de San Gabriel, prior of the convent of the said town.
• Prior to the actual war of 1812 and one of the most conspicuous causes leading to it, was the attack on the Chesapeake, an American war vessel.
• Washington by her prior marriage with John Parke Custis.
• In the days of his youth he was an hearer of Florentius at Deventer, by whom also he was sent, when twenty years old, to his own brother, who at that time was Prior of Mount St.
• Thus the Germans were again almost back on the line they had held, prior to the big retreat on the Hindenburg line in the spring of 1917.
• Kneller was highly praised by Dryden, Addison, Prior, and Steele.
• Prior to the establishment of the direct railway communication with England, Mr.
• Prior is represented by those who knew, and have wrote concerning him, as a gentleman, who united the elegance and politeness of a court, with the scholar, and the man of genius.
• They should not, prior to the attack, look at the Americans in a threatening manner.
• Just prior to my departure from Manila he was appointed, by Speaker Osmena, a member of a committee on reception for Governor-General Harrison.
• The time which has elapsed since the separation has been considerably more than the whole brief period of our union, and the not much longer one of our prior acquaintance.
• The prior of the abbey was formerly governor of the town and castle, and the keys were brought to him every evening.
• Lucio Marineo Siculo has drawn a sombre picture of life in Spain prior to the establishment of order under Ferdinand and Isabella.
• Prior to the November Elections in 1877, the only cheering phase of politics in Brooklyn and New York was that there were no lower political depths to reach.
• When the harangue ended, the prior made a sign to his servants, and immediately one of the most timorous and craven of the prisoners was brought up before him.
• This decision, however, had only been entertained by him a short time prior to his escape.
• The Richmond papers bear witness to the fact, that Benjamin Davis advertised Charles Gilbert, for mouths prior to this date, as has been stated in this narrative.
• As Myles turned from his mother, Prior Edward came out from the inner chamber, and was greeted warmly by him.
• For three days they were lodged in the guest-chambers, and then the Prior asked them whether they stood firm in their wish to enter the Order.

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