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Webster 1913 Edition

Priority

Pri-or′i-ty

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
priorité
. See
Prior
,
Adj.
]
1.
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else;
as,
priority
of application
.
2.
Precedence; superior rank.
Shak.
Priority of debts
,
a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
Syn. – Antecedence; precedence; preëminence.

Webster 1828 Edition

Priority

PRIOR'ITY

,
Noun.
The state of being antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as priority of birth. The priority of Homer or Hesiod has been a subject of dispute.
1.
Precedence in place or rank.
Priority of debts, is a superior claim to payment, or to payment before others.

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