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Adjective
/ˈprīər/,
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Existing or coming before in time, order, or importance,
  1. Existing or coming before in time, order, or importance
    • - he has a prior engagement this evening
Noun
  1. A man who is head of a house or group of houses of certain religious orders, in particular

  2. The man next in rank below an abbot

  3. The head of a house of friars

  1. anterior: earlier in time
  2. the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
  3. Prior is an ecclesiastical title, derived from the Latin adjective for 'earlier, first', with several notable uses.
  4. Prior is a brand name used by Nortura on its eggs and white meat (mainly chicken, hen and turkey). The brand dates back to 1977 when Norsk Eggcentral rebranded Sol-egg to Prior. The brand was owned by Prior Norge until 2006 when it merged with Gilde Norsk Kjøtt to form Nortura.
  5. The Ori are fictional characters in the science fiction television series, Stargate SG-1. They are a group of "ascended" beings who use their advanced technology and knowledge of the universe to attempt to trick non-ascended humans into worshipping them as gods.
  6. (Priors) In Bayesian statistical inference, a prior probability distribution, often called simply the prior, of an uncertain quantity p (for example, suppose p is the proportion of voters who will vote for the politician named Smith in a future election) is the probability distribution that ...
  7. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot; A previous criminal offense on someone's record; In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution; Of that which comes before, in advance; former, previous; Previously
  8. (PRIORS) MIDs from Fleet Service
  9. (Priors) Mids who came to the Academy out of the fleet.
  10. A term generally used to refer to a previous conviction.
  11. An officer in a monastic order or religious house, sometimes next in rank below an abbot. [32]
  12. adj. coming before in time, order or importance
  13. the deputy of an abbot in a major Benedictine institution; or the head of a lesser Benedictine house; or the head of any house in some orders
  14. The Prior is the leader of the local community or house*. Known as the praepositus by St. Augustine, he is regarded in the Augustinian tradition as the "first among equals" with authority, along with his Council,* to make decisions in the name of the community. ...
  15. previous and pre- all mean before. So pre-natal means before birth.
  16. In Benedictine monasteries, the second in command after the abbot; also a term for the head of a religious house that did not have the legal status of a monastery.
  17. A leading member of a monastery, second in rank to the abbot/abbess, elected by the monks to serve for life.