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  Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv['e], fr. L. privatus. See
     Private.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to
        private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. ``
        Privee knights and squires.'' --Chaucer.
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     2. Secret; clandestine. `` A privee thief.'' --Chaucer.
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     3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the
        public. `` Privy chambers.'' --Ezek. xxi. 14.
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     4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly
        cognizant; privately knowing.
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              His wife also being privy to it.      --Acts v. 2.
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              Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak.
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     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 Privy 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.
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  Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv['e], 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 signed, the seal which the king uses in
        grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which
        the 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.

  privy councilor /pɹˈɪvi kˈaʊnsɪlə/
  Geheimrat 
     Synonym: privy councillor