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Look up prior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term prior may refer to: Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) Prior convictions
A prior probability distribution (often simply called the prior probability, prior distribution, or prior) of an uncertain quantity is its assumed probability
The Prior of Coldingham was the head of the Benedictine monastic community of Coldingham Priory in Berwickshire, Scotland. The priory was founded during
houses (prior provincial), or the entire order (prior general). Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be
Mark William Prior (born September 7, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago
Madeleine Edith Prior (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool
he married on September 22, 1977. They dated on and off for four years prior to their marriage. They separated in January 1978, and their divorce was
Hazel Prior (born in Oxford, England) is a Celtic harpist and the author of five bestselling novels. Her books have wildlife and environmental themes
Billy Prior is a fictional character in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy of novels set during World War I. Prior, often called by his second name, is
Joanna Melancy Lyndon Prior (born February 1966) is a senior British publishing executive who has served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pan Macmillan
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Reference to medieval priories and settlements of the military religious order Knights Templars.
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Temple-town. This surname refers to medieval priories and settlements of the military religious...
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Beautiful, Prior
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Priority
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English French
Servant of the priory.
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Latin English
Head of a monastery.
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English (Cumbria and Lancashire)
English (Cumbria and Lancashire) : habitational name for someone from Cartmel in Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), the site of a famous priory, inland from Cartmel Sands. The place name is derived from Old Norse kartr ‘rocky ground’ + melr ‘sandbank’.
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English and German
English and German : variant spelling of Prior.
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Servant of the Priory; Monastic Leader
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Irish
Irish Gaelic name DAGDA means "the good god." In Celtic mythology, this is the name of a god of knowledge and magic, and a leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann, supernatural beings who inhabited Ireland prior to the coming of the Celts.
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Arabic, Muslim
Beautiful; Prior
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Arabic, Muslim
He who Percedes; Antecedent; Prior; Superior; Chief
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English (mainly East Midlands)
English (mainly East Midlands) : habitational name from a lost minor place name, Pophall in Linchmere, Sussex, or from Pophills in Salford Priors, Warwickshire.
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French
Head of a priory.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄ðhyll (from gem̄ð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin.A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681.
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Priority
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English
English : variant spelling of Prior.
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Temple-town. This surname refers to medieval priories and settlements of the military religious...
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and Surrey, from Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.English : habitational name from Ditton Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with a man called Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.
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English : variant spelling of Prior.Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Jamaican, Latin, Scottish, Swiss
From Scotland; A Scotsman; From
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Rock
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Australian, Portuguese
One who is Victorious
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Rest, Repose
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Armenian, Australian
First Born
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Australian, British, Christian, English, Gaelic, Indian, Irish, Scottish
Baker; Swarthy; Dark; Black; Dark Faced
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Chinese
strong, good.
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Guidance; Instruction
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Tamil
Star, Meteor, Pupil of the eye, Palms
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Happy; Glad; Delighted; Cheerful; Joyful; Feminine of Farih
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The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.
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any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.
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The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
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The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.
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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.
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The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
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More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
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In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
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Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.
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of Priory
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One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
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The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
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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.
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The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.
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The state or office of prior; priorate.
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A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
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The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.