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King James Dictionary
• Privy
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Privy Chamberlains to His Holiness
• Privy Chamberlains of Sword and Cape
• Privy Chamberlains
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Privy
Webster Dictionary
• Privy
• Privies
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Privy Council
• Privy Purse
• Privy Seal
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Privy; Privily
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Privy Council
• Privy Seal
Lexicons
• συνείδω , σύνοιδα , συνοράω
• חָדַר
• שָׁפְכָה

(1):

(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

(2):

(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.

(3):

(a.) Secret; clandestine.

(4):

(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

(5):

(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

(6):

(n.) 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.