Privy

priv′i, adj. private: pertaining to one person: for private uses: secret: appropriated to retirement: admitted to the knowledge of something secret.— n. ( law ) a person having an interest in an action: a nece ary house.— adv. Priv′ily , privately: secretly.— ns. Priv′ity , secrecy: something kept private: knowledge, shared with another, of something private or confidential: knowledge implying concurrence: relation between different interests, as, for example, in feudal tenure the interests of several persons in the same land, the mutual relationships of contractor and contractee, the relation caused by common knowledge in breaches of contract: ( obs. ) seclusion, intimacy; Priv′y-cham′ber , private apartment in a royal residence; Priv′y-coun′cil , the private council of a sovereign to advise in the administration of government; Priv′y-coun′cill or , a member of the privy-council; Priv′y-purse , the purse or money for the private or personal use of the sovereign; Priv′y-seal , -sig′net , the seal used by or for the king in subordinate matters, or those which are not to pa the great seal; Priv′y-ver′dict , a verdict given to a judge out of court.— Gentlemen ushers of the privy-chamber , four officials in the royal household who attend certain court ceremonies. [Fr. privé —L. privatus , private.]