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Privy

adjective

Hidden from general view or use. Synonyms: secluded, secret. "A secluded romantic spot" , "A secret garden"

(followed by 'to') informed about something secret or not generally known.

noun

(pl. privies)

A room or building equipped with one or more toilets. Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet.

A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate. Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse.

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... ammunition or of provisions, given in the governor's last report, and that fraud on a large scale has been carried on; and I cannot but think that some men, at least, of higher rank than these storekeepers must have been privy to the affair." ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

... paper handed you exhibits many serious charges, and it is my wish that it may be submitted to congress. This I am the more inclined to, as the suppression or concealment may possibly involve you in embarrassment hereafter, since it is uncertain how many, or who, may be privy to ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) • John Marshall

... Meredith, and Macartney, were the Duke of Marlborough's men; and the two colonels had been broke but the year before for drinking perdition to the Tories. His grace was a Whig now and a Hanoverian, and as eager for war as Prince Eugene himself. I say not that he was privy to Duke Hamilton's death, I say that his party profited by it; and that three desperate and bloody instruments were ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... interested in Indian Territory to the exclusion of all other parts of the country, was beginning to find expression in various communications to President Davis and others in authority. Just how far Stand Watie was privy to Cooper's schemes and in sympathy with them, it is impossible to say. Boudinot was Cooper's able coadjutor, fellow conspirator, while Boudinot and Watie were ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... constitution contains seven chapters consisting of one hundred and eleven articles: Chapter I. The Emperor; II. Rights and Duties of Subjects; III. The Imperial Diet; IV. The Ministers of State and Privy Council; V. The Judicature; VI. Finance; VII. Supplementary Rules. The emperor also announced that the imperial diet would be convoked in the twenty-third year of Meiji (1890), and that the constitution would go into effect at ...

— Japan • David Murray

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