No man could make such an income, except one who was at once an excellent Nisi Prius pleader, as well as a good Crown lawyer.
The prius of all judgments is the Ego, which posits the connection of subject and predicate.
Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said which has not been said before).
Quos Deus vult perdereprius dementat (Whom God wishes to destroy he first deprives of reason).
The Middle Ages maintained it, but expressed it unfortunately in the proposition: nihil est in intelluctu, quod non prius fuerit in sensu.
Who will pity them, saith Neander, or be much offended with such wives, si deceptae prius viros decipiant, et cornutos reddant, if they deceive those that cozened them first.
Musicam docet amor, licet priusfuerit rudis, how love makes them that had no skill before learn to sing and dance; he concludes, 'tis only that power and prerogative love hath over us.
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta.
In the department of knowledge, that is to say, knowledge of the outer world, Comenius rested his method on the scholastic maxim, "Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prius" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
