English-Thai Dictionary

privy

ADJ ส่วนตัว  ลับ  confidential personal suan-tua

 

privy

N ห้องส้วม  toilet hong-suam

 

privy chamber

N ห้องพัก ส่วนพระองค์ ใน ราชสำนัก  hong-pak-suan-pare-ong-nai-rad-cha-sam-nak

 

privy council

N สภา องคมนตรี  cabinet sa-pa-ong-ka-mon-tre

 

privy councillor

N องคมนตรี  ong-ka-mon-tre

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIVY

a.[L. privus. See Private. ] 1. Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; as the privy purse; the privy confer of a king.
2. Secret; clandestine; not open or public; as a privy attempt to kill one.
3. Private; appropriated to retirement; not shown; not open for the admission of company; as a privy chamber. Ezekiel 21:14.
4. Privately knowing; admitted to the participation of knowledge with another of a secret transaction.
He would rather lose half of his kingdom than be privy to such a secret.
Myself am one made privy to the plot.
His wife also being privy to it. Acts 5:2.
5. Admitted to secrets of state. The privy council of a king consists of a number of distinguished persons selected by him to advice him in the administration of the government.
A privy verdict, is one given to the judge out of court, which is of no force unless afterward affirmed by a public verdict in court.

 

PRIVY

n.In law, a partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; as a privy in blood. Privies are of four kinds; privies in blood, as the heir to his father; privies in representation, as executors and administrators to the deceased; privies in estate, as he in reversion and he in remainder; donor and donee; lessor and lessee; privy in tenure, as the lord in escheat. 1. A necessary house.
Privy chamber, in Great Britain, the private apartment in a royal residence or mansion. Gentlemen of the privy chamber are servants of the king who are to wait and attend on him and the queen at court, in their diversions, etc. They are forty eight in number, under the lord chamberlain.

 

PRIVY-COUNSELOR

n.A member of the privy council. Privy-counselors are made by the king's nomination without patent or grant.

 

PRIVY-SEAL, PRIVY-SIGNET

n.In England, the seal which the king uses previously 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. 1. Privy-seal, is used elliptically for the principal secretary of state, or person entrusted with the privy-seal.
The king's sign manual is the warrant to the privy-seal, who makes out a writ or warrant thereon to the chancery. The sign manual is the warrant to the privy-seal, and the privy-seal is the warrant to the great seal.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIVY

Priv "y, a. Etym: [F. privé, 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

Priv "y, n.; pl. Privies (.

 

1. (Law )

 

Defn: 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. Burrill. Wharton.

 

2. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

privy

priv y |ˈprivē ˈprɪvi | ▶adjective [ predic. ] (privy to ) sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private ): he was no longer privy to her innermost thoughts. • archaic hidden; secret: a privy place. ▶noun ( pl. privies ) 1 a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; outhouse. 2 Law a person having a part or interest in any action, matter, or thing. DERIVATIVES priv i ly |ˈprivəlē |adverb ORIGIN Middle English (originally in the sense ‘belonging to one's own private circle ’): from Old French prive ‘private ’ (also used as a noun meaning ‘private place ’ and ‘familiar friend ’), from Latin privatus ‘withdrawn from public life ’ (see private ).

 

privy chamber

priv y cham ber ▶noun a private apartment in a royal residence.

 

privy council

priv y coun cil ▶noun a body of advisers or private counselors appointed by a sovereign or a governor general (now chiefly on an honorary basis and including present and former government ministers ). DERIVATIVES priv y coun ci lor noun

 

privy counsellor

privy counsellor (also privy councillor ) ▶noun a member of a Privy Council.

 

privy purse

priv y purse |ˈprɪvi pərs | ▶noun (in the UK ) an allowance from the public revenue for the monarch's private expenses.

 

privy seal

priv y seal ▶noun (in the UK ) a seal affixed to documents that are afterward to pass the Great Seal or that do not require it.

 

Oxford Dictionary

privy

privy |ˈprɪvi | ▶adjective 1 (privy to ) sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private ): he was no longer privy to her innermost thoughts. 2 archaic hidden; secret: a privy place. ▶noun ( pl. privies ) 1 a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building. 2 Law a person having a part or interest in any action, matter, or thing. DERIVATIVES privily adverb ORIGIN Middle English (originally in the sense ‘belonging to one's own private circle ’): from Old French prive ‘private ’ (also used as a noun meaning ‘private place ’ and ‘familiar friend ’), from Latin privatus ‘withdrawn from public life ’ (see private ).

 

privy chamber

privy cham |ber ▶noun a private apartment in a royal residence.

 

Privy Council

Privy Council ▶noun a body of advisers appointed by a sovereign or a Governor General (now chiefly on an honorary basis and including present and former government ministers ). • chiefly historical a sovereign's or Governor General's private counsellors.

 

privy counsellor

privy counsellor (also privy councillor ) ▶noun a member of a Privy Council.

 

privy purse

privy purse ▶noun (in the UK ) taxed funds provided by the Duchy of Lancaster to meet some official expenditure incurred by the monarch, plus his or her private expenses.

 

privy seal

privy seal ▶noun (in the UK ) a seal affixed to state documents.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

privy

privy adjective he was not privy to the discussions: in the know about, acquainted with, in on, informed of, advised of, apprised of; informal wise to; formal cognizant of. ▶noun dated he went out to the privy. See bathroom.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

privy

privy adjective she was not privy to any information contained in those letters: aware of, acquainted with, in on, informed of, advised of, apprised of, in the know about, cognizant of; informal genned up on, clued in on, clued up on, wise to, hip to.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

privy

priv y /prɪ́vi /形容詞 1 ｟かたく ｠〖be ～〗【秘密などを 】知って [知らされて ]いる, 関与している «to » .2 ｟古 ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗秘密の ; 私用の .名詞 複 -ies C ｟古 ｠(屋外 )簡易トイレ (latrine ); 〘法 〙当事者 .P -̀ C ó uncil 〖the ～〗｟英 ｠国 [女 ]王諮問機関, 枢密院 .P -̀ C ó uncillor [C ó unsellor ]｟英 ｠枢密顧問官 .～̀ p á rts ｟古 ｠陰部 .～̀ p ú rse 〖the ～; しばしばP - P- 〗王室手元金 .P -̀ S é al 〖the ～〗｟英 ｠玉璽 （ぎよくじ ）, 天子の印 .