priori — meaning in English
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English meaning
- prior adj Coming before in time or order; earlier.
Senses
priori is used for these senses in English:
- father superior a friar or monk in charge of a monastery, priory or convent; an abbot or a prior
- prior (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- prior (Bayesian, _, statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected. [from 20th c.]
prior — full definition
- adj Coming before in time or order; earlier.
- noun A senior member of a religious order, ranking just below an abbot.