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A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.

To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

owed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

nchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.

Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [Obs.] Cowell.

To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see.

gnificance and value; of the same import or meaning. For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. South.

s and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus. To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile. Shak.

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton.

One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles

yment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.

are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.…

t; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.

reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition;…

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alte…

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount.