English edit

Etymology edit

prior +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

priorly (not comparable)

  1. (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.