The church is mentioned in 918 in the will of Prior Andrea.
Bianchi says Demetrius, husband of Chacia, was prior in 1162.
The letters are like those of the monument to Vekenega, who died in IIII; and Bianchi says there was a prior named Chaseus or Chaseo in 1096.
Under the Byzantines the prior was first in the state, though there is mention of a Catapan in 1163.
This plate, being such a close imitation of solid silver, was not permitted by the laws of England to bear any stamp whatever prior to 1773, when the town of Sheffield was specially privileged to put upon its product the marks of the makers.
Sand or gravel, or any material which would not flow or become displaced by the shield, of course, had to be excavated ahead of the shield, and removed from the heading prior to pushing it forward.
Their absence from this important part of the household is not so much to be wondered at when we consider the size of the joints served prior to the time of that well-known queen and the crude methods of preparing the meal.
Though its employment in the manufacture of chewing gum is of comparatively recent date, chicle was used by the Indians prior to the days of Columbus as a means of quenching their thirst.
The bulk of the crude chicle manufactured is shipped in blocks to Canada, where it is further evaporated and carefully refined prior to importation into the United States.
There seems to be absolute unanimity in the judgment that Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis ought, as Gospel Hymns, to have the prior places after the Lessons which they follow.
Then there is the well-known tradition that prior to the death of any of the lords of Roslin, Roslin Chapel appears to be on fire, a weird occurrence which forms the subject of Harold's song in the "Lay of the Last Ministrel.
Concluding that it belonged to some friar who had been domesticated at Newstead--prior to the confiscation of the monasteries by Henry VIII.
A) As we have seen, any Avoidance under these circumstances would be remarkable without a prior stage in quite other conditions than those found generally with H to W residence.
Interesting as is Mr. Hill Tout's account of the Salish Indians, we need not dwell longer on an hypothesis which makes village communities prior to the evolution of Totemism.
This prior possession is not incompatible with an amicable recognition of the privilege of later participation by others.
Until this segregration, however, does take place, nothing is more curious to watch than the attitude and relations of these young males among themselves, the oldest and strongest claiming prior marital rights, but no more.
One thing is clear: totem and phratry are prior to 'class' divisions.
We are not to invent an ideal 'Aryan,' and then to explain all his traces of savagery as borrowings by him from some unknown prior race.
If gesture language was prior to spoken language, in each case gesture names could be employed, as, in North America, totem names are to this day expressed in gesture language.
The author was moved to prepare his manual for the instruction of his brother missionaries prior to their entrance into their field of work in Luzon.
Our consciousness of self is prior to all questions of trust or assent.
Such notions indeed are an evidence of the reality of the special sentiments in particular instances, without which they would not have been formed; but in themselves they are abstractions from facts, not elementary truths prior to reasoning.
It views its own proper proposition in the medium of prior propositions, and measures it by them.
No document has ever been produced, in which the word appears as Bonaparte, prior to Napoleon's appointment to the command of the Army of Italy.
So again, the action of the brain, which goes onprior to our realising the idea in which it results, is not perceived by the individual.
Again:-- "Another point which we have here to consider is the part which heredity has played in forming the perceptive faculty of the individual prior to its own experience.
The Kirghiz in 1903 declared that its surface had been rising steadily during the preceding ten years, though prior to that it was dropping.
But besides acting as receiver prior to the first meeting of creditors, the official receiver also becomes trustee by operation of law on the making of an order of adjudication.
English churchman, appears first as sub-prior of the monastery of Ely.
Prior to this each state had its system and the law was "wholly chaotic.
Under the law existing prior to these enactments, the process of cessio bonorum operated chiefly as a means for obtaining release from imprisonment for debt on a formal surrender by a debtor of all his goods and estate.
Perhaps the imminent danger of the attacking infantry exercised the prior claim.
On the evening prior to the longed-for day rumour gave place to certainty.
The Priorand Councillors of the Fraternity have power to grant a dispensation on the ground of poverty.
The revenues were collected and distributed by the Prior of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen at Rouen, and the Archbishop of Rouen was Rector and Patron.
The Prior is strictly questioned about the conduct of the students.
After the Prior has reported, the students are examined viva voce upon the portions of the decretals, which they are studying, and the results of the examination bear out generally the Prior's views.
And as I went along, I began to gather up the fragments of my prior knowledge of my handsome hawker.
I had scarcely entered when I got notice of a robbery, committed on the prior night at the workshop of Messrs Robb and Whittens, working silversmiths in Thistle Street.
Whether it was that our gentleman had heard some noise of a retreat, or that he had had his prior doubts confirmed by the smoky appearance of the den, I cannot tell, but certain it is that the startled lover stopped again.
I had been so quick in my movements that I went right in upon my man just as he had entered, no doubt after the cautious doublings consequent upon our prior interview.
Nor would it be too much to say that the orange blossom was not accidental, if it was an object which she had known to be in the house where a marriage was on the tapis, and of which she had obtained the knowledge by a prior visit.
Arriving at the foot of a stair, I planted there my constables, and mounted till I came to a door familiar to me on prior occasions.
Prior to getting your truss I could not walk half a dozen city blocks without great distress.
On its line, have sprung up a number of beautiful towns and villages as if by magic, while many of those that had an existence prior to its construction have grown into flourishing cities.
Prior to 1857, the passage of vessels from the Welland Canal to the ocean was of very rare occurrence.
Prior to this the mineral was barreled up and shipped to London, being taken over as ballast, in packet ships, at low rates.
James de Guevara, Prioralso of Manila for their Superior, and these went to the Kingdom of Firando.
Francis de Morales, Prior of Manila for their Superior, saying the King of that Province sent for them, being the only one, who had not yet submitted to Dayfusama.
In order to prepare your body for this change in manner of living and work, we recommend that for a short time prior to your arrival in camp, and thereafter, you observe the following suggestions: 1.
For at least two weeks prior to your arrival at camp, take regularly the exercises described in this book.
But some of the cathedral bodies had adopted the Benedictine rule, and were monasteries in which the bishop occupied in some respects, the place of abbot, but the prior was the actual ruler.
Prior and Convent of Nocton for a perpetual anniversary.
The corn tithe, demesne lands and meadow of the church, and the tenants' rents to belong to the prior and convent; the lesser tithes, etc.
Clerk of the Hospital, for which he received from the Prior and Convent of St. Katharine juxta Lincoln, 24s.
By the end of the fifteenth century the chantries numbered about 60; and 36 chantry priests were incorporated into a community, and lived in St. William's College, which was originally the prebendal house of the Prior of Hexham.
Right aft fluttered the White Ensign, an emblem under which few if any, of the motor-boat officers ever dreamt of sailing prior to the eventful August, 1914.
There cannot be found anything from which we can reason a priori to that which is itself prior to all.
An argument a priori is one which deduces a truth from another truth of a prior and more universal order.
For it is not reducible to act except by a prior cause which is then itself actual, necessary being, and ultimate cause.
It is itselfprior to every principle we are looking for as the most ultimate and the most universal.
There is no cause, no principle, no truth, no intelligible idea more universal than God, and prior to him, from which his being can be deduced as a consequence.
Thus we can never attain the true idea of God while we apprehend any intelligible object of thought as prior to him who is really prior to all, and must be apprehended as prior or else falsely apprehended.
The existence of a reality which may be counterfeited is a fair postulate of reason, until the contrary is demonstrated, and something positive of a prior and more universal order is logically established from the first principles of reason.
Then we have lost again our a priori principle, by finding that the conclusion is actually priorto it.
It is, indeed, absurd; but the absurdity cannot be shown without at the same time showing the impossibility of finding any principle of reason prior to the idea of God.
The Nile, as it issues from the Albert N'Yanza is the entire Nile; prior to its birth from the Albert Lake it is not the entire Nile.
It has no pretence of being original and universal, but always pre-supposes revelation as having prior possession, and dating from time immemorial.
The Virginians looked upon them as rivals, for the latter claimed a right to the soil, having settled prior to the grant to Clarendon and his associates.
The Dutch claimed a title to all this region by virtue of priordiscovery and settlement, and Governor Keift protested against this intrusion.
The former claimed a right to the soil because of prior actual occupation; the latter claimed the domain as their own on account of the discovery of the Atlantic coast by the Cabots, before the French had made any settlements.
