prior

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpɹaɪ.ə/]

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1. prior (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: 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: […]

2. prior (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.: The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.

3. prior (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.: The head friar of a house of friars.

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