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adj. Preceding in time or order: "[They] insist that foreign vessels seeking access obtain prior approval” ( Seymour M. Hersh).

adj. Preceding in importance or value: a prior consideration.

n. A monastic officer in charge of a priory or ranking next below the abbot of an abbey.

n. One of the ruling magistrates of the medieval Italian republic of Florence.

adj. Of that which comes before, in advance.

adj. former, previous

ad. Previously.

n. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.

adj. Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous

adj. First, precedent, or superior in the order of cognition, reason or generality, origin, development, rank, etc.

n. The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.

n. a chief magistrate, as in the republic of Florence in the middle ages.

n. a prior conviction; -- said of an accused criminal.

Preceding, as in the order of time, of thought, of origin, of dignity, or of importance; in law, senior in point of time: as, a prior and a junior incumbrance.

Previous: used adverbially, followed by to, like previous. See previous, a.

n. A superior officer; a superior.

n. Formerly, in Italy, a chief magistrate, as in the medieval republic of Florence.

n. Synonyms Abbot, Prior. See def. .

adj. earlier in time

n. the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot

"The term 'prior express consent' means the oral or written approval of a person..."

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previous    above    preliminary    ongoing    successive    timely    forego    mutual    definitive