privant (privant)

[L. privan (t-) s, ppr. of privare, deprive: see private.] Noting privative opposites. See privative. privat-docent (pre-vät dō-tsent'), n. [G., Dan. privat, private, private She knew them [her sister's council of state] adverse to her religion...and private to her troubles and imprisonment. Sir R. Naunton, Fragment a Regalia. 7. Keeping privacy or confidence; secretive; reticent. You know I am private as your secret wishes, Ready to fling my soul upon your service. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 1. Let these persons march here [with] a charge to be pri vate and silent in the busine till they see it effected. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 470. 8t. Intimate; confidential. If Dauid, beeing a king, a Prophet, a Sainct, and with God so priuate , understoode not what to present unto God, what shall we doe? Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 2. What makes the Jew and Lodowick so private ? Marlowe , Jew of Malta, ii. 2. 9. Particular; individual; special: opposed to general. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private inter pre2 Pet. i. 20. Who cries out on pride, tation. That can therein tax any private party?... Who can come in and say that I mean her, When such a one as she such is her neighbour? Why should the private pleasure of some one Become the public plague of many moe? IMG:content-0993.png:[blocks in formation] Into her private cell, when nature rests. Milton , P. L., v. 109. The Rais gave the captain of the port a private hint to take care what they did, for they might lose their lives. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 249. 3. Not holding public office or employment; not having a public or official character: as, a private citizen; private life; private schools. "Prayers made for the use of the 'idiotæ' or private persons," as the word is, contradistinguished from the rulers of the church. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 282. Christ and his Apostles, being to civil affairs but privat men, contended not with Magistrates. Any private person Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xiii. that is present when a felony is committed is bound by the law to arrest the felon. Black stone , Com., IV. xxi. 2. A place of seclusion from company or ob- 4. Noting a common soldier, or one of the or- servation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe . IMG:content-0994.png:[blocks in formation] dinary rank and file. I cannot put him to a private soldier that is the leader of so many you sands. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 177. 5. Being in privacy; retired from company; secluded. Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself. Shak ., R. and J., i. 1. 144. B. Jonson , Poetaster, v. 1. I came home to be private a little, not at all affecting the life and hurry of Court. Evelyn , Diary, Jan. 18, 1062. Cæsar is private now; you may not enter. Sir, we are private with our women here. Tennyson, Queen Mary, v. 5. 6†. Privy; informed of what is not generally known. See are po e ed by and incumbent on persons or bodies of persons considered as filling public positions or offices, or which have relation to the whole political community, or to its magistrates and officers. Kenelm Edward Digby, Hist. of Law of Real Prop., p. 255.- Private legislation, legislation affecting the interests of particular persons, as distinguished from measures of public policy in which the community is interested. - Private ma . ma 1.- Private nuisance. See nuisance, 5.- Private parts, the organs of sex. - Private person, one not having or not for the time being acting in a public official capacity. - Private property, private rights, the property and rights of persons, natural or artificial, in their individual, personal, or private capacity, as distinguished from the rights of the state or public vested in a body politic or a public officer or board as such and for public use. Thus, if a city owns a building which it leases for obtaining a revenue, the property and its rights in respect thereto are deemed the private property of the city, as distinguished from parks, etc., and buildings in municipal use. -Private rights of way, or private ways, rights which belong to a particular individual only, or to a body of individuals exclusively, either for the purpose of pa ing generally or for the purpose of pa ing from a particular tenement of which they are po e ed. Goddard. Private trusts, those trusts in the maintenance of which the public have no interest. Private Trusts are those wherein the beneficial interest is vested absolutely in one or more individuals, who are, or within a certain time may be, definitely ascertained, and to whom, therefore, collectively, unle under some legal disability, it is competent to control, modify, or determine the trust. Bispham , Principles of Equity, § 58. Private war, a war carried on by individuals, without the authority or sanction of the state of which they are subjects. Halleck. Private wrong, a civil injury; an infringement or privation of some civil right which belongs to a person considered in his private capacity. Syn. 2. Latent, Covert, etc. (see secret ), retired, secluded, isolated, sequestered. II. n. 11. A person not in public life or office. And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony? Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 1. 255. 2. A common soldier; one of the rank and file of an army.-3†. A secret me age; private intimation. Pem . Who brought that letter from the cardinal? Sal . The Count Melun, a noble lord of France; Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love Is much more general than these lines import. Shak ., K. John, iv. 3. 16. 41. Personal interest or use; particular bus i ne . My lords, this strikes at every Roman's private. B. Jonson , Sejanus, iii. 1. Our President ingro ing to his private Oatmeale, Sacke, Oyle, Aquavitæ, Beefe, Egges, or what not. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 154, 51. Privacy; retirement. Go off!... let me enjoy my private . Shak ., T. N., iii. 4. 100. private In our private towards God being as holy and devout as if we prayed in public. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 888. 6. pl . The private parts of the body.-7. In some colleges, a private admonition. In private, privately; in secret; not publicly. They do desire some speech with you in private . B. Jonson, Cat i line, iv. 5. The private, private life of individuals, or what relates to private life: opposed to and suggested by the phrase the public. [Rare.] I long to see you a history painter. You have already done enough for the private ; do something for the public. Pope , To Jervas, Nov. 29, 1716. privatet (privāt), v . t . [L. privatus , pp. of pri vare , strip, deprive: see private , a . Cf. prive .] To deprive. They woulde not onelye lese their worldely substaunce, but also be pryvated of their lives and worldly felycytie, rather then to suffre Kynge Rycharde, that tyraunt, lenger to rule and reygne over them. Hall , Rich. III., f. 17. ( Hall i well .) privateer (pri-va-tēr′), n. [ He is at no charge for a fleet farther than providing pri vateers, wherewith his subjects carry on a piratical war at their own expense. Swift, Conduct of the Allies. 2. The commander of, or a man serving on board of, a privateer. Meeting with divers Disappointments, and being out of hopes to obtain a Trade in these Seas, his Men forced him to entertain a Company of Privateers which he met with near Nicoya. Dampier , Voyages, I. 137. IMG:content-0995.png:[blocks in formation] In 1797 the United States pa ed a law to prevent citizens of the United States from privateering against nations in amity with or against citizens of the United States. Schuyler , Amer. Diplomacy, p. 383. privateering (pri-va-tēr ́ing), n . [Verbal n. of privateer, v.] The act or practice of cruising in a privateer for hostile purposes. Many have felt it to be desirable that privateering should be placed under the ban of international law, and the feel ing is on the increase, in our age of humanity, that the system ought to come to an end. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 122. privateer ism (pri-va-tērʼizm), n . [ privateer + -ism .] Naut . , disorderly conduct, or anything out of man-of-war rules. Also called privateer practice . Admiral Smyth . [Rare.] privateersman (pri-va-tērz'man), n .; pl. priva teersmen (-men). [ privateer's , po . of priva teer, + man .] An officer or seaman of a priva teer. Marquis Santa Cruz, lord high admiral of Spain, looked on, mortified and amazed, but offering no combat, while the Plymouth privateersman [Drake] swept the harbour of the great monarch of the world. Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 283. privately (privat-li), adv. 1. In a private or secret manner; not openly or publicly. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives the disciples came unto him privately. Mat. xxiv. 3. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally: as, he is not privately benefited.