priorly en · ADV
Etymology
From prior + -ly.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) Previously.
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[…]
1800, Alexander Geddes, Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures: Remarks on the Pentateuch: