1. privy - Noun
2. privy - Adjective
3. privy - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
Secret; clandestine.
Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
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.
A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Source: Webster's dictionarySon--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose. Kurt Vonnegut
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? E. O. Wilson
When in Congress, he, along with the other Young Turks, actively promoted bank nationalization and the abolition of privy purses and privileges. Chandra Shekhar
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them. Henry Fielding
Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us. Julian of Norwich
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Charles Tupper