prior (1121-25)

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prior (1121-25)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 9,394a prior; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,418c prior; TL: 7,1873 prïor; DEAF:  prior; DMF:  prieur1; TLF:  prieur; OED:  prior n.1; MED:  priour n.; DMLBS: 2466c prior ]
prieur,  priore,  priour,  priur,  pryor; 
c.s. prius,  preur  70.30  

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1monasticoccupationstatuseccl.prior, head of a monastery or religious house (where he might be deputy to the abbot)
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Dunc prent cungé a ses freres, As quels il ert mult dulz peres [...]. A sun priur tuz les concreit, Dist lui cument guarder les deit  149
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  il est a meisun venu: A grant joie fud receu; Li prius e tut li covent Cuntre lui vunt mult dulcement  3249
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1275 )  Al prior de l’eglise fetes voz lettres faire  (Ch) 9.136
( 1283 )  de la priorté Seint Oswald de Gloucestre, dunt nus feymes escuminier n’ad geres le prieur e les greyneurs de leynz  ii 547
( 1316 )  Le priore del hospital de seint Jon de Jerusalem en Engleterre fut sommoné a respondre  Ed II xx 33
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  a les priour et sacresten de Bury  429.40
prioresse  priorie  priorité#1  suzprior 
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