Thursday, March 24, 2011

Privy Counselor

One of the private counselors to the king or queen.

"Avarice had likewise a Privy-Counsellor who was always at his Elbow, and whispering something or other in his Ear: The Name of this Privy-Counsellor was Poverty."

Joseph Addison, The Spectator (1711).

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