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ich alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson.

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. Fothherby.

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.

ion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

contend in fight; as, to battle over theories. To meet in arms, and battle in the plain. Prior.

The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) Dr. Prior.

or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior.

s, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than. He that cometh after me is preferred before me. John i. 15. The eldest son is before the younger in succession. Johnson.

the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson.

On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior.