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See Plaintive. [Obs.] Prior.

e power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. Pope.

pikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed (Conyza squarrosa), having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.

as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about. A man must have poked into Latin and Greek. Prior.

mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. Shak. Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. Prior.

r in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome.

ate of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preëminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent. [Written also præ-.]

Prior to Adam.

The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Prior.

One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.

Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

Prior to the glacial or drift period.

Prior knowledge.

Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond.

More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.

An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.…

Priority of place in sitting.[Obs.] Carew.

In a prevalent manner. Prior.