adjective.
Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private.
adjective.
Secret; clandestine.
adjective.
Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
adjective.
Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
adjective.
a private apartment in a royal residence.
adjective.
the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen.
adjective.
a member of the privy council.
adjective.
moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys.
adjective.
the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
adjective.
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adjective.
a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused.
noun.
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.
noun.
A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.