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The word that turns excuses into something that sounds like Latin homework.
means Coming before something else in time, order, or importance — or, used as a noun, a head monk just below an abbot, or one's earlier criminal record.
from Straight from Latin 'prior,' meaning 'former' or 'earlier,' the comparative of 'pri-' (before) — the same ancestral root behind 'primary,' 'prime,' and 'pristine.' The monastic 'prior' (a monastery's second-in-command) arrived in English through medieval church Latin, while the legal sense of a 'prior' conviction is a much later clipping of 'prior offense.'
- monastery rank
- A prior runs a priory, just below an abbot
- latin roots
- From prior, meaning former or first
- legal weight
- Priors are past convictions that haunt sentencing
- logic term
- A priori knowledge needs no experience to prove
prior of durham — head of durham cathedral priory, one of england's most powerful monasteries from 1083 until dissolution in 1540
prior of cluny — leader of cluny abbey in burgundy, france, which at its peak controlled over 1,000 dependent monasteries across europe in the 11th-12th centuries