priorly
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
priorly (not comparable)
- (archaic) previously
- 1800, Alexander Geddes, Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures: Remarks on the Pentateuch:
- this single name, whencesoever it be derived, or whensoever it were given, cannot stand as a proof that the name Jehovah was known priorly to Moſes, against so positive a testimony as that of the passage in Exodus […]
References edit
“priorly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.