| 单词 | privy |
| 释义 | privy 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 |
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