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

a. 1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. --
Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. --
Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. --
Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [ Eng. ] Weale. --
Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tendency; drift. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. peri- + vitelline. ] (Biol.) Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum. [ 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. [ L. quadrivium a place where four ways meet; quattuor four + via way. ] Having four ways meeting in a point. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the four “liberal arts” making up the quadrivium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] The four “liberal arts, ” arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Shrift; confession. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Strive. -- Striv"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adv. In a thriving manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. trivialis, properly, that is in, or belongs to, the crossroads or public streets; hence, that may be found everywhere, common, fr. trivium a place where three roads meet, a crossroad, the public street; tri- (see Tri-) + via a way: cf. F. trivial. See Voyage. ] 1. Found anywhere; common. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labor. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trivial round, the common task. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to the trivium. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trivial name (Nat. Hist.), the specific name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. [ Obs. ] Skelton. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trivialities [ Cf. F. trivialité ] 1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is trivial; a trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a trivial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being trivial. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. See Trivial. ] 1. The three “ liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]