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Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.
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The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
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The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
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The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.
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The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
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any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.
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The state or office of prior; priorate.
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The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
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The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.
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In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
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Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
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To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
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More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
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A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
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One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
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The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.
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The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.
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Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled.
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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.
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