prior
suomi-englanti sanakirjaprior englannista suomeksi
aiempi
priori
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Substantiivi
prior englanniksi
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(RQ:Hume Human Nature) 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. (smallcaps) cauſe must be prior to the effect.
(RQ:Disraeli Sybil)
(RQ:Hawthorne Marble Faun)
(RQ:Ruskin Praeterita) that there is now scarce vestige left of any building prior to the fifteenth century.
(RQ:Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge) seemed to have schooled himself into a course of strict mechanical rightness towards this woman of prior claim, at any expense to the later one, and to his own sentiments.
More important or significant.
''Chiefly in'' 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.
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''Chiefly followed by'' to: advance, before, previously.
(quote-web)''’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)|work=The A.V. Club|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218220653/https://tv.avclub.com/winter-is-here-on-game-of-thrones-final-season-premiere-1834034615|archivedate=18 December 2020|date=14 April 2019|passage=From the opening shots of the anonymous young Winterfell boy rushing to catch a glimpse of Snow (character)|Jon Snow and Queen (w), hearkening back to those moments of the very first episode in which Arya rushed to do the same with an approaching King (w), the series is calling back to its beginning, suggesting (at least for now) that the wheel continues to turn, sending us back into a pattern begun seven seasons prior.
A probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected. (defdate)
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In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
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A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. (defdate)
(quote-book)
A high-ranking member of a religious house or order.
In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a claustral.
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(RQ:Thomas More Workes) Barnes Church|page=791|column=1|passage=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: (..)
The head of a (l), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a conventual.
(coordinate terms)
The head friar of a house of friars.
The head of the Abbey|Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
(RQ:Froude England) in the meantime of vacation the same privilege resteth in the churches of Canterbury and York; and is executed by the prior, dean and chapter of the said churches; (..)
A chief magistrate of the (w) (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
(RQ:Ray Low-countries) Then they are called one by one before the three Priors, and each one vvrites in his Schedule the name of him vvhom he vvould have to be Duke, and leaves it upon the table.
The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and America.
A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
The head of a company.
(l) (gloss)
(Q)
in front
(l) (gloss)