a. Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. deprivatio. ] 1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deprived p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving. ] [ LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private. ] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. [ 1913 Webster ]

A minister deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.
Syn. -- disadvantaged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Deprivation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, deprives. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Privacies [ See Private. ] 1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concealment of what is said or done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A private matter; a secret. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. See Privity, 2. [ Obs. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., fr. L. privatus. See Private. ] A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; G. pl. -docenten /plu>. [ Also Privatdozent. ] [ G.; privat private + docent teacher. See Docent. ] In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. privatus apart from the state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward (hence, alone, single) and akin to prae before. See Prior, a., and cf. Deprive, Privy, a. ] 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason . . . then retires
Into her private cell when nature rests. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Private act or
Private statute, a statute exclusively for the settlement of private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial notice; -- opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole community. In the United States Congress, similar private acts are referred to as private law and a general law as a public law. --
Private nuisance or
wrong. See Nuisance. --
Private soldier. See Private, n., 5. --
Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground; also, a road on private land, contrasted with public road, which is on a public right of way. Kent. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Personal interest; particular business.[ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor must I be unmindful of my private. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Privacy; retirement. [ Archaic ] “Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One not invested with a public office. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What have kings, that privates have not too? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. The private parts; the genitals. [ 1913 Webster ]

In private, secretly; not openly or publicly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Private. ] 1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The commander of a privateer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Privateered p. pr. & vb. n. Privateering. ] To cruise in a privateer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cruising in a privateer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Privateersmen An officer or seaman of a privateer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally; not officially; as, he is not privately benefited. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of one not invested with public office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See Private. ] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. privativus: cf. F. privatif. See Private. ] 1. Causing privation; depriving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. &unr_;), un-, non-, -less. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That of which the essence is the absence of something. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being privative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Scot. privie, Prov. E. prim-print, primwort. Prob. for primet, and perh. named from being cut and trimmed. See, Prim, a., and cf. Prime to prune, Prim, n., Prie, n. ] (Bot.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges; -- called also prim. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia. --
Evergreen privet, a plant of the genus Rhamnus. See Alatern. --
Mock privet, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Phillyrea. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. privilège, L. privilegium an ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, legis, law. See Private, and Legal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise. [ 1913 Webster ]

He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Stockbroker's Cant) See Call, Put, Spread, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breach of privilege. See under Breach. --
Question of privilege (Parliamentary practice), a question which concerns the security of a member of a legislative body in his special privileges as such. --
Water privilege, the advantage of having machinery driven by a stream, or a place affording such advantage. [ U. S. ] --
Writ of privilege (Law), a writ to deliver a privileged person from custody when arrested in a civil suit. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Prerogative; immunity; franchise; right; claim; liberty. -- Privilege, Prerogative. Privilege, among the Romans, was something conferred upon an individual by a private law; and hence, it denotes some peculiar benefit or advantage, some right or immunity, not enjoyed by the world at large. Prerogative, among the Romans, was the right of voting first; and, hence, it denotes a right of precedence, or of doing certain acts, or enjoying certain privileges, to the exclusion of others. It is the privilege of a member of Congress not to be called in question elsewhere for words uttered in debate. It is the prerogative of the president to nominate judges and executive officers. It is the privilege of a Christian child to be instructed in the true religion. It is the prerogative of a parent to govern and direct his children. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Privileged p. pr. & vb. n. Privileging. ] [ Cf. F. privilégier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. [ 1913 Webster ]

To privilege dishonor in thy name. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver. [ 1913 Webster ]

He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. --
Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. Wharton. Burrill. --
Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a privy manner; privately; secretly. Chaucer. 2 Pet. ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Privities [ From Privy, a.: cf. F. privauté extreme familiarity. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Privacy; secrecy; confidence. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A private matter or business; a secret. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. The genitals; the privates. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. privé, fr. L. privatus. See Private. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. “ Privee knights and squires.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Secret; clandestine. “ A privee thief.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. “ Privy chambers.” Ezek. xxi. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wife also being privy to it. Acts v. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Myself am one made privy to the plot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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
Privy signet, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Privies 1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party. Burrill. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + L. privare to deprive. ] To take back or away. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reprieve. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege. [ 1913 Webster ]