a priori. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

a priori

SYLLABICATION:	a pri·o·ri
PRONUNCIATION:	ä pr-ôr, -r, pr-ôr, -r
ADJECTIVE:	1. Proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect; deductive. 2a. Derived by or designating the process of reasoning without reference to particular facts or experience. b. Knowable without appeal to particular experience. 3. Made before or without examination; not supported by factual study.
ETYMOLOGY:	Medieval Latin prir : Latin , from + Latin prir, ablative of prior, former.
OTHER FORMS:	a pri·ori —ADVERB a pri·ori·ty (-ôr-t, -r-) —NOUN


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