Толковый словарь английского языка - privy
Privy
privy
I. adjective Etymology: Middle English prive, from Anglo-French privé, from Latin privatus private Date: 14th century 1. private , withdrawn , secret , belonging or relating to a person in one's individual rather than official capacity, admitted as one sharing in a secret , privily adverb II. noun (plural privies) Date: 14th century 1. a small building having a bench with holes through which the user may defecate or urinate, toilet 3b, a person having a legal interest of privity
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 (foll. by to) sharing in the secret of (a person's plans etc.). 2 archaic hidden, secret. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 US or archaic a lavatory. 2 Law a person having a part or interest in any action, matter, or thing. Phrases and idioms Privy Council 1 (in the UK) a body of advisers appointed by the sovereign (now chiefly on an honorary basis and including present and former government ministers etc.). 2 usu. hist. a sovereign's or governor-general's private counsellors. privy counsellor (or councillor) a private adviser, esp. a member of a Privy Council. privy purse Brit. 1 an allowance from the public revenue for the monarch's private expenses. 2 the keeper of this. privy seal (in the UK) a seal formerly affixed to documents that are afterwards to pass the Great Seal or that do not require it. Derivatives privily adv. Etymology: ME f. OF priv{eacute} f. L privatus PRIVATE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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