Prior

required (pri'or.) to do. See [ L., TYPE. superior.) (Eccl.) The superior of a convent of monks; or the next in dignity to an abbot when there is one. Pri'or, MATTHEW, an English poet, B. in Dorset, 1664; D. 1721. His poems are chiefly remarkable for their airy vivacity of style and smoothne of versification. [s. 733]