PRIVY
\pɹˈɪvi], \pɹˈɪvi], \p_ɹ_ˈɪ_v_i]\
Definitions of PRIVY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
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Secret; clandestine.
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Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
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Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
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A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
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Not public; retired; as, privy chambers; private; as, the privy purse; knowing secretly; as, he was privy to everything that went on.
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Privily.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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Private: pertaining to one person: for private uses: secret: appropriated to retirement: admitted to the knowledge of something secret.
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(law) A person having an interest in an action: a necessary-house.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Private; pertaining to some one exclusively; assigned to private uses; clandestine; appropriated to retirement; admitted to the knowledge of what is secret.
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A person having an interest in any action at law: a necessary house. Priry-chamber, the private apartment in a royal residence. See Private.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Assigned to private uses; not open or public; secret; admitted to the joint knowledge of some secret; admitted to state secrets.
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A place of retirement; a necessary house.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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