Vocabulary Word
Word: privy
Definition: secret; hidden; not public; made a participant in something secret; Ex. privy chamber government; Ex. be privy to a discussion; CF. private
Definition: secret; hidden; not public; made a participant in something secret; Ex. privy chamber government; Ex. be privy to a discussion; CF. private
Sentences Containing 'privy'
Educated at Cambridge, Alnwick was Archdeacon of Salisbury before being named Keeper of the Privy Seal on 19 December 1422.
Montagu Collet Norman, later Lord Norman, Privy Councillor, Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944.
Impressed by Yit's bold behavior, the crown prince pardoned Yit and made him a messenger in his Privy Council ().
In 1841 he was invested a member of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Steward of the Household in the government of Sir Robert Peel, a post he held until 1846.
He was a member of Henry's Privy chamber by 1540, when he was a member of the envoy that greeted Anne of Cleves when she arrived in England to marry Henry.
He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1770.
In this position he was also called Keeper of the Court Wardrobe, Keeper of the Privy Wardrobe, or Receiver of the Chamber.
In this capacity he represented the Lord Treasurer's interests in the regalia, and the wardrobe and privy wardrobe.
From 1660, as the Privy Wardrobe no longer remained at the Tower of London, a caretaker was appointed as watchman for the Master of the Jewel House.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1916
Howard Carter returns as a featured character, as the Emersons are privy to his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamon.
In 1796 he was appointed Groom of the Stole and made a Privy Counsellor.
Born in 1613, he was the son of Henry Vane the Elder, a Privy Counsellor of King Charles I of England, and therefore one of the most powerful men in England.
He was managing director of Arthur Guinness Sons between 1959 and 1967, and was a Companion of Honour and Privy Councillor.
He was for a time Lord President of the Privy Council of Scotland.
This idea have been cited with approval by the Privy Council, with several relevant factors being considered, such as risk of loss, and chance of profit.
14941546) was an English politician and courtier, for many years a member of the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII.
By 1539, he was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and was present at the reception of Anne of Cleves, also in 1539.
He was one of the most senior members of the privy chamber during these years and his intimacy with the King made him a useful agent for secret and covert affairs.
He went on to become Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, the top position in the Canadian public service.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1832 and raised to the peerage as Baron Broughton, of Broughton-de-Gyfford in the County of Wiltshire, in 1851.
Mornington was sworn of both the British Privy Council and the Irish Privy Council in 1809.
He was appointed Privy Councillor in 1823.
Moore was made a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland (PC) in 1943.
Juvayni's own position at court and his family connections made him privy to information unavailable to other historians.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1961.
In particular, it mocked the feud between Walpole and Pulteney, a Privy Councillor.
In 1852 his university created him a DCL, and in 1858 he resigned his judgeship, and was made a member of the Privy Council, entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
In 1708, he entered Parliament as MP for Lincolnshire, and was invested a Privy Counsellor that same year.
He was re-elected at the following General Election;
He was then sworn of the Privy Council in 1910.
He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council in 1886.
From that point on, Washington was privy to British intelligence pouches between New York and Canada.
His son, the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale, was appointed to the Privy Council of Scotland after the Restoration.
These officials were usually peers or the sons of peers and Privy Councillors.
This sermon from 1585 was one of those that triggered Travers attack and appeal to the Privy Council.
Owen was elevated to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1963.
The de Courtenays were natural King's or Privy Counsellors due to their martial prowess.
It sat from 1841 to 1867, when it was replaced by the Queen's Privy Council of Canada.
Matsukata successively held offices as president of the Japanese Red Cross Society, privy councillor, "gijokan", member of the House of Peers, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan.
The new houses, here, as a rule, have one privy for two houses."
Up to the late 1960s they still had no private garden, no bathrooms and a single outside privy.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1963.
After his return he received a clerkship in the office of the Irish privy council in Dublin.
He attained the rank and title of geheimrat (privy councillor) under the German Empire.
Otte Brahe was a member of the Privy Council, as were two of their sons, Steen and Axel Brahe.
The Privy Council of Sweden referred to the mine as the nation's treasury and stronghold.
In 1903, he was appointed a Privy Councillor ("Geheimer Rat").
The Privy Council upheld the decision on appeal. His pronouncements on the law of the Transfer of Property were significant and were major contributions to the case-law on the subject. Judges of the Privy Council respected his opinions and his judgments were seldom overruled or set aside.
He was a gentleman of the privy chamber from 1671 to 1685.
He spent some time in Paris as physician to King Louis XIII and was also a Privy Councillor there."