See prior in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "His prior residence was smaller than his current one.",
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"text": "I had no prior knowledge you were coming.",
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"ref": "1739, [David Hume], “Rules by which to Judge of Causes and Effects”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book I (Of the Understanding), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of Knowledge and Probability), pages 303–304:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VI, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book I, page 83:",
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"ref": "1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Sculptor’s Studio”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 148–149:",
"text": "\"As these busts in the block of marble,\" though Miriam, \"so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is prior to all our action.\"",
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"ref": "1886, John Ruskin, “Rome”, in Præterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life, volume I, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 280:",
"text": "These reconstructions took place with so great ease and rapidity at Abbeville, […] that there is now scarce vestige left of any building prior to the fifteenth century.",
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"ref": "1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIII, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 152:",
"text": "[T]he Mayor, […] 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.",
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"bear#Verb"
],
[
"additional",
"additional#Adjective"
],
[
"data",
"datum"
],
[
"collected",
"collect#Verb"
],
[
"rationalsphere",
"rationalsphere"
],
[
"belief",
"belief"
],
[
"supported",
"support#Verb"
],
[
"evidence",
"evidence#Noun"
],
[
"experience",
"experience#Noun"
],
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"inference",
"inference"
],
[
"future",
"future#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "Bayesian statistics",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Bayesian statistics) 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.",
"(by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 84 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in the rationalsphere: belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future",
"word": "priori"
}
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law enforcement",
"orig": "en:Law enforcement",
"parents": [
"Crime prevention",
"Emergency services",
"Law",
"Crime",
"Public safety",
"Justice",
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Public administration",
"Security",
"All topics",
"Government",
"Fundamental",
"Politics"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
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}
],
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{
"ref": "1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published 1966, →OCLC, page 47:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record."
],
"id": "en-prior-en-noun-pINNSQx0",
"links": [
[
"law enforcement",
"law enforcement"
],
[
"previous",
"previous#Adjective"
],
[
"arrest",
"arrest#Noun"
],
[
"criminal",
"criminal#Adjective"
],
[
"conviction",
"conviction"
],
[
"criminal record",
"criminal record"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record."
],
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{
"word": "antecedent"
}
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"in-plural"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"law-enforcement"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dosie",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "досие"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiánkē",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"word": "前科"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"word": "aiempi rangaistus"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"word": "aiempi tuomio"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "antécédents"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "casier (judiciaire)"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstrafe"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "antecedente"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 9 89",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone’s criminal record",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "antecedentes"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹaɪ.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "49 49 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "prior probability distribution",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 49 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "prior probability distribution",
"word": "priorijakauma"
},
{
"_dis1": "49 49 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "априорное распределение вероятностей",
"roman": "apriornoje raspredelenije verojatnostej",
"sense": "prior probability distribution",
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "prior"
}
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "alien prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Ditton Priors"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "grand prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"word": "great prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Hurstbourne Priors"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Jeffreys prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "prioracy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prioral"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prior claustral"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prior conventual"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "prioress"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"obsolete",
"rare"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "priorship"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Salford Priors"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Stoke Prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "subprior"
}
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"2": "enm",
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},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "prior"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "priour"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "prior"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "fr",
"2": "prieur"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "etymon"
},
"expansion": "etymon",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "prior",
"t": "ancestor; predecessor"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "LL.",
"2": "prior",
"t": "superior of a religious house or order; abbot; deputy abbot; head of a guild"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin prior (“superior of a religious house or order; abbot; deputy abbot; head of a guild”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "2"
},
"expansion": "²",
"name": "sup"
}
],
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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}
],
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}
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"name": "Christianity",
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"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
{
"_dis": "11 1 7 10 6 6 4 12 8 8 8 8 2 3 5 0",
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"name": "Terms with Breton translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 1 6 10 6 6 4 13 8 8 8 8 4 3 5 0",
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"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 0 6 12 6 6 4 10 10 10 10 10 2 3 1 0",
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"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 0 7 11 7 7 2 10 10 10 10 10 1 2 1 0",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 1 7 11 7 7 4 11 8 8 8 8 2 3 6 0",
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"name": "Terms with Estonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 1 7 11 7 7 4 10 9 9 9 9 2 3 1 0",
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"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 0 7 11 7 7 3 10 10 10 10 10 0 2 0 0",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 1 6 10 6 6 4 12 7 7 7 7 2 6 5 0",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 1 7 10 7 7 4 10 9 9 9 9 2 3 5 0",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 0 7 12 7 7 2 10 10 10 10 10 0 2 0 0",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 1 6 11 6 6 4 12 8 8 8 8 2 3 5 0",
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"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 0 5 20 5 5 1 11 8 8 8 8 0 1 0 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Monasticism",
"orig": "en:Monasticism",
"parents": [
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
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{
"text": "(abbot’s deputy):"
},
{
"ref": "1532, Thomas More, “The Confutacion of [William] Tyndale’s Aunswere […]. The Eyght Booke in which is Confuted Doctour [Robert] Barnes Church.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, page 791, column 1:",
"text": "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: […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.",
"In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral."
],
"id": "en-prior-en-noun-iRjZebP8",
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"high-ranking",
"high-ranking"
],
[
"member",
"member#Noun"
],
[
"religious",
"religious#Adjective"
],
[
"house",
"house#Noun"
],
[
"religious order",
"religious order"
],
[
"abbey",
"abbey"
],
[
"person",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"ranking",
"rank#Verb"
],
[
"abbot",
"abbot"
],
[
"appoint",
"appoint"
],
[
"deputy",
"deputy#Noun"
],
[
"prior claustral",
"prior claustral"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Christianity) A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.",
"In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral."
],
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{
"word": "dean"
},
{
"word": "provost"
}
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
],
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{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pryjór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прыёр"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "priol"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "priór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прио́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pomoštnik igumen",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "помощник игумен"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "převor"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prioro"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "ĉefabato"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prieur"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗriori",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "პრიორი"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "perjel"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "príor"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prioro"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prióir"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "priore"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przeor"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "priór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прио́р"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nastojátelʹ",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "настоя́тель"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"_dis1": "71 6 3 3 3 3 2 8 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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"text": "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.",
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"(obsolete)",
"(business) The head of a company."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"business"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹaɪ.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "priour"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pryjór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прыёр"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "priol"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "priór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прио́р"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pomoštnik igumen",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "помощник игумен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "převor"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prioro"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "ĉefabato"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prieur"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗriori",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "პრიორი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prior"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "perjel"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "príor"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prioro"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prióir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "priore"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "przeor"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "priór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прио́р"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nastojátelʹ",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "настоя́тель"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "priór",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пріо́р"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "in an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy",
"word": "پرائر"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prieur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prieure"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "priora"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prioresa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "priora"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prior"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "priorinna"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "head friar of a house of friars",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence",
"word": "priori"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America",
"word": "priori"
}
],
"word": "prior"
}
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