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Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

The state of one not invested with public office.

To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. To privilege dishonor in thy name. Shak.

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. 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 com…

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

eaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

The porch or vestibule of a temple.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

To invest which properties, or qualities. [Obs.] Shak.

Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.

To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises. Sylvester.

nction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See Mathematics. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blacksto…

Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday.

ous theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came h…

Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture. Blackstone. He that was in question for the robbery. Shak. The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question. Macaulay.

r fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.