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‖ privado Obs.|priˈvado|
[Sp., private, particular, familiar, a favourite.]
An intimate private friend, a confidant; the favourite of a ruler.
1584Leicester's Commw. (1641) 49 The good Earle answered his Servant and deare Privado curteously. 1637Heylin Antid. Lincoln. i. 20 The papers were not sent unto the Vicar, but to some one or other of your Privados about those parts. 1679Hist. Jetzer 3 The Friers, who were their Confidents, and Privadoes in the Plott. 1704Steele Lying Lover ii, Lat. May I desire one Favour? Y. Book. What can I deny thee, my Privado? 1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) VII. lxxxiii. 347 He beareth a very profligate character..and is Mr. Lovelace's more especial privado. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xii, A courtly knight..and privado, as they say, to the young prince.
⁋An alleged sense ‘a private soldier or inferior (non-commissioned) officer’ in some recent Dicts. is founded on a misreading of ‘lantz prisadoes’ [in Harl. MS. 4031 lf. 244]. see lance-prisado. |