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prior

adj
/ˈpɹaɪ.ə/UK/ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/CA/ˈpɹɑe.ə/

Etymology

From Middle English priour, prior (“head or deputy head of a monastery or other religious house; predecessor; superior”), from Old English prior, from Anglo-Norman priour, prior, priur, and Old French prior, priur (modern French prieur), and directly from their etymon Latin prior (“ancestor; predecessor”) (whence Late Latin prior (“superior of a religious house or order; abbot; deputy abbot; head of a guild”)), a noun use of prior (“former, previous, prior”, adjective): see etymology 1.

  1. derived from prior — “ancestor; predecessor”
  2. derived from prior
  3. derived from priour
  4. inherited from prior
  5. inherited from priour

Definitions

  1. Coming before in order or time

    Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.

    • His prior residence was smaller than his current one.
    • I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
    • Since therefore 'tis poſſible for all objects to become cauſes or effects to each other, it may be proper to fix ſome general rules, by vvhich vve may knovv vvhen they really are ſo. […] 2. The cauſe must be prior to the effect.

  2. More important or significant.

  3. Chiefly in prior probability

    Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Chiefly followed by to

      Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.

      • The doctor had known three months prior.

    2. A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the…

      A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.

    3. A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.

      • And a little later we get the routine report on his prints from Washington, and he's got a prior back in Indiana, attempted hold-up six years ago.

    4. A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.

      • It is not yet an hundred yere a goe, ſince that ſame mayſter doctour was butler in the ſame houſe, whereof I was maiſter and praiour: […]

    5. A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.

    6. The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and…

      The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.

    7. A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field

      A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.

    8. The head of a company.

    9. A surname originating as an occupation for someone employed by a prior.

    10. An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.

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Derived

hyperprior, priorable, prior art, priorate, prior authorization, prioristic, prior knowledge, priorly, prior probability, prior restraint, prior to, recognition of prior learning, revise one's priors, update one's priors, alien prior, Ditton Priors, grand prior, great prior, Hurstbourne Priors, Jeffreys prior, prioracy, prioral, prior claustral, prior conventual, prioress, priorship, Salford Priors, Shaugh Prior, Stoke Prior, subprior, Swaffham Prior

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prior. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prior. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at prior

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA