Priv"y , n.; pl.
Privies (&?;). 1. (Law) 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.
Burrill. Wharton. 2. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Priv"y (?), a. [F. privé, fr. L.
privatus. See Private.] 1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. "
Privee knights and squires."
Chaucer. 2. Secret; clandestine. " A
privee thief." Chaucer.
3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. " Privy chambers." Ezek. xxi. 14.
4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly
cognizant; privately
knowing. His wife also
being privy to it. Acts v. 2. Myself
am one made
privy to the plot.
Shak. Privy chamber, a private apartment in a royal residence. [Eng.] -- Privy council (Eng. Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. Burrill. --
Privy councilor,
a member of the privy
council. -- Privy
purse, moneys set apart for the
personal use of the monarch; also, the title of
the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.]
Macaulay. -- Privy seal or signet, 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. [Eng.] -- Privy verdict, a verdict given privily to the judge out
of court; -- now disused. Burrill.
Quotes From Classical Literature on 'privy'You can hear pronunciation of the quotes if you click on  . The sound files tend to be pretty big.
 left a sword and a pair of shoes, hiding them under a great stone
that had a hollow in it exactly fitting them; and went away making
her only privy to it, and commanding her that, if, when their son
came to man' s estate, he should be able to lift up the stone and
take away what he had left there, she should send him away to him
with those things with all secrecy, and with injunctions to him as
much as possible to conceal his journey from everyone; for he
greatly feared the Pallantidae, who were continually mutinying
interest. The proceeding appeared as extraordinary to him as it
had done to Edward. He indeed knew of more motives than Waverley
was privy to, for the peremptory order that he should join his
regiment. But that, without further inquiry into the
circumstances of a necessary delay, the commanding officer, in
contradiction to his known and established character, should have
proceeded in so harsh and unusual a manner, was a mystery which
he could not penetrate. He soothed our hero, however, to the
it established in his own country, unless he has the learning
and genius of a Donne. To these, or equivalents for these in
a special privy inspiration, ' the common people' of his day,
and ever since Elizabeth' s day, were pretending. This was the
inevitable result of the translation of the Bible into
English. Walton quotes with approval a remark of a witty
Italian on a populace which was universally occupied with
Free- will and Predestination. The fruits Walton saw, in
to be acquainted where they are to be found as the ancient inhabitants
of a country? I have the best reasons for believing that both Mohegan
and the Leather- Stocking have been privy to the existence of a mine in
this very mountain for many years.”
The sheriff had now touched his cousin in a sensitive spot; and
Marmaduke lent a more attentive ear to the speaker, who, after waiting
a moment to see the effect of this extraordinary development,
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