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A priori

Matched in: Term A priori

Lex posterior derogat priori

Matched in: Term Lex posterior derogat priori

Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori 'quiparatur

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Priory

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

Commandery

Commandery, a manor or chief messuage with lands and tenements thereto appertaining, which belonged to the priority of St. John of Jerusalem, in England; he who had the government of such a manor or house

Neocriticism

French idealists following C Renouvier It rejects the noumena of Kant restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories

Prioress

A lady superior of a priory of nuns and next in dignity to an abbess

A posteriori

A posteriori. See A PRIORI

Convent

Convent, the fraternity of an abbey or priory, as societas is the number of fellows in a college. More generally applied to a sisterhood of religious nuns in the Roman Catholic Church.

Lay impropriators

to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or

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