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prioryn.Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French priori; Latin prioria; French prioré. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman priori, priourie, prierie, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French priorie office of prior (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), monastery led by a prior (1221 in Old French) and its etymon post-classical Latin prioria (12th cent.; from 1212 in British sources) < prior prior n.1 + classical Latin -ia -y suffix3, and partly (in β. forms) < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French prioré (c1174 as priorez , plural; Middle French, French prieuré ) < post-classical Latin prioratus priorate n. Compare Old Occitan prioria (1420), Italian prioria (first half of the 14th cent.), and the Romance forms cited at priorate n.With grand priory n. at sense 1b compare French grand prieuré (1421–30 in Middle French as grant prioré ). With sense 2 compare earlier priorwick n. In sense 3 apparently by confusion with (or an error for) priority n. 1. society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > prior > [noun] > jurisdiction of α. c1300 St. Wulstan (Laud) 10 in C. Horstmann (1887) 71 In þe priorie of wiricestre. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 5599 Þoru [h]is conseil chirchen wide he let rere & abbeys & prioryes aboute her & þere. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 475 (MED) William, þe sone of Nigellus, foundede þe priourie of Nortoun in þe province of Chestre. 1433 in H. Nicolas (1835) IV. 160 (MED) Þe smale abbeyes & priories shal be appointed what þat þei shal sende to þe said convocacon. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll.) 141 Accalon..wente..unto a fayre maner by a pryory. a1552 J. Leland (1711) III. 30 Here was a Priorie of Nunnes lately suppressid. 1603 J. Stow (new ed.) 168 The emortising and propriation of the Priorie. 1641 V. 379/2 And otheres dueties foirsaid perteaneing to the lat beshoprike and priorie of Standrois with the said monastrie place of the pryorie. 1726 J. Ayliffe 6 The Churches which are given to them [sc. priors] in Titulum, or by way of Title, are called Priories. 1767 R. Burn (ed. 2) IV. 456 In every priory, next under the prior was the sub-prior. 1803 at Coldstream It was anciently the seat of a priory or abbacy of the Cistertian order. 1845 E. M. Sewell i The modern Priory..had no connection with the old religious house except that of bearing the same designation. 1888 A. Jessopp iii. 136 A priory was a monastery which in theory or in fact was subject to an abbey. 1909 82/1 An ancient priory had once stood on the heights above it. 1970 J. McPhee 66 Stones were taken from the priory in more recent times for use in the construction, on adjacent ground, of Oronsay farmhouse and its steadings. 1994 No. 10. 52/1 The ancient priory was about to be demolished. β. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 7869 (MED) He ȝef..To abbeys & to priories [a1400 Trin. Cambr. v.r. priores] largeliche of is golde.1438 Will in (1855) 4 327 (MED) As towchyng all these maneres, londes..and avoswesons of pryoures, chyrches, and chapell.c1500 (1895) 210 Ye muste doo founde a Pryoure of twelue monkes & the pryour, in suche place there as my lady shal ordeyne.1530 J. Palsgrave 258 Priore, prioré.society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > provincial > [noun] > of Knights of St. John > territory of 1701 T. Brown tr. M. Aulnoy I. 56 He was conducted to the Castle de Consuegra, which belongs to the Grand Priory of Castile, of the order of Malta. a1763 P. O'Kelly tr. J. MacGeoghegan (1831) II. v. 163 It was the grand priory of the order of Templars, which was re-united in the fourteenth century with its eight commanderies. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold (ed. 3) 413/2 The Hospitallers..After the order had attained its full development, it was divided into eight languages... Each language was divided into grand priories and bailiwicks, which again were subdivided into commanderies. 1896 11 147 An outline of the settlement by the knights in each country is furnished..and the seat of the grand priory; with the development of the langue. 1901 15 May 5/6 The Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. 1966 904 The English grand priory, suppressed by Henry VIII, was revived in 1831 and received a royal charter in 1888 as a British order of chivalry. 2005 (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Travel section) 3 Then to the Baths of Constantine [in Arles]..and the Grand Priory of the Knights of Malta. society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > prior > [noun] > office of a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 443 (MED) After þe fiftenþe ȝere of his priourie [L. prioratus], Herlewyn, abbot of Becco, deide. ?c1450 (1891) 2056 (MED) Cuthbert to halyeland come, And þe priory on him he nome. 1509–10 (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 37 We have affixt our seylle of the office of priory. a1578 R. Lindsay (1899) II. 284/4 Pryoris. 1879 tr. C. F. De Montalembert VII. 161 (note) During the fifteen years of his priory. the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > precedence or priority the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [noun] 1600 (1816) IV. 246/2 Anent þe priorie in places and voting ffor removeing of all sic occasionis of controverseis. 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