Word Meanings - SUBPRIOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Related words: (words related to SUBPRIOR)

• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• VICEGERENT
  Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton.
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• CLAUSTRAL
  Cloistral. Ayliffe
• PRIORLY
  Previously. Geddes.
• PRIOR
  Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used (more info) compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• A PRIORI
  Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.