prior
/ˈpɹaɪ.(ə)ɹ/ sustantivo C2En español: prior, priora
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- 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.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
Plural priors
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Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters, by the earnestness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character of Mr.
Wickham, undoubtedly by design; for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and Mrs.
Prior to Bazalgette's brilliant intervention, recurrent outbreaks of cholera had repeatedly devastated the city, thriving in the deplorable sanitary conditions of early industrialization.
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