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- English Word Priorly Definition Previously.
- English Word Priorship Definition The state or office of prior; priorate.
- English Word Priory Definition 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.
- English Word Pris Definition See Price, and 1st Prize.
- English Word Prisage Definition A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
- English Word Prisage Definition The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
- English Word Priscillianist Definition A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.
- English Word Prise Definition An enterprise.
- English Word Prise Definition See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.
- English Word Priser Definition See 1st Prizer.
- English Word Prism Definition A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
- English Word Prism Definition A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
- English Word Prism Definition A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
- English Word Prismatic Definition Alt. of Prismatical
- English Word Prismatical Definition Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.
- English Word Prismatical Definition Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
- English Word Prismatical Definition Same as Orthorhombic.
- English Word Prismatically Definition In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
- English Word Prismatoidal Definition Having a prismlike form.
- English Word Prismoid Definition A body that approaches to the form of a prism.