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PRIV'ILEGED, pp. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right or immunit...
PRIV'ILEGE, n. [L. privilegium; privus, separate, private, and lex, law; origina...
PRIV'ET, n. A plant of the genus Ligustrum. The evergreen privet is of the genus...
PRIV'ATIVENESS, n. Notation of the absence of something.
PRIV'ATIVELY, adv. by the absence of something. 1. Negatively. The duty of the n...
PRIV'ATIVE, a. Causing privation. 1. Consisting in the absence of something; not...
PRIVA'TION, n. [L. privatio, from privo. See Private .] 1. The state of being de...
PRI'VATENESS, n. Secrecy; privacy. 1. Retirement; seclusion from company or soci...
PRI'VATELY, adv. In a secret manner; not openly or publicly. 1. In a manner affe...
PRIVATEE'R, n. [from private.] A ship or vessel of war owned and equipped by a p...
PRI'VATE, a. [L. privatus, from privo, to bereave, properly to strip or separate...
PRIVA'DO, n. A secret friend. [Not used.]
PRI'VACY, n. [form private.] A state of being in retirement from the company or ...
PRITH'EE, a corruption of pray thee, as I prithee; but it is generally used with...
PRIS'TINE, a. [L. pristinus. See Prior and Proe.]original; primitive; as the pri...
PRIS'ONMENT, n. Confinement in a prison; imprisonment. [The latter is commonly u...