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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv['e], fr. L. privatus. See
   {Private}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to
      private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. ``
      Privee knights and squires.'' --Chaucer.

   2. Secret; clandestine. `` A privee thief.'' --Chaucer.

   3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the
      public. `` Privy chambers.'' --Ezek. xxi. 14.

   4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly
      cognizant; privately knowing.

            His wife also being privy to it.      --Acts v. 2.

            Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak.

   {Privy chamber}, a private apartment in a royal residence.
      [Eng.]

   {Privy council} (Eng. Law), the principal council of the
      sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other
      persons chosen by the king or queen. --Burrill.

   {Privy councilor}, a member of the privy council.

   {Privy purse}, moneys set apart for the personal use of the
      monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of
      these moneys. [Eng.] --Macaulay.

   {Privy seal} or {signed}, the seal which the king uses in
      grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which
      the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do
      not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the
      principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the
      privy seal. [Eng.]

   {Privy verdict}, a verdict given privily to the judge out of
      court; -- now disused. --Burrill.

Council \Coun"cil\ (koun"s[i^]l), n. [F. concile, fr. L.
   concilium; con- + calare to call, akin to Gr. ??? to call,
   and E. hale, v., haul. Cf. {Conciliate}. This word is often
   confounded with counsel, with which it has no connection.]
   1. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation,
      deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for
      consultation in a critical case.

   2. A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an
      advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's
      council; a city council.

            An old lord of the council rated me the other day.
                                                  --Shak.

   3. Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

            Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council
            called by night.                      --Milton.

            O great in action and in council wise. --Pope.

   {Aulic council}. See under {Aulic}.

   {Cabinet council}. See under {Cabinet}.

   {City council}, the legislative branch of a city government,
      usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common
      council, but sometimes otherwise constituted.

   {Common council}. See under {Common}.

   {Council board}, {Council table}, the table round which a
      council holds consultation; also, the council itself in
      deliberation.

   {Council chamber}, the room or apartment in which a council
      meets.

   {Council fire}, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the
      Indians hold their councils. [U.S.] --Bartlett.

   {Council of war}, an assembly of officers of high rank,
      called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to
      measures or importance or nesessity.

   {Ecumenical council} (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or
      divines convened from the whole body of the church to
      regulate matters of doctrine or discipline.

   {Executive council}, a body of men elected as advisers of the
      chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.]
      

   {Legislative council}, the upper house of a legislature,
      usually called the senate.

   {Privy council}. See under {Privy}. [Eng.]

   Syn: Assembly; meeting; congress; diet; parliament;
        convention; convocation; synod.

資料來源 : WordNet®

privy council
     n : an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British
         crown)