Definition of privilege

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Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest..

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Lord :: Lord (v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord..
Discorporate :: Discorporate (a.) Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
Rival :: Rival (n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Candidate :: Candidate (n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors..
Disqualify :: Disqualify (v. t.) To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness..
Bote :: Bote (n.) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.
Piscary :: Piscary (n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.
Palatine :: Palatine (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count..
Disafforest :: Disafforest (v. t.) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage..
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language..
Bonus :: Bonus (n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter..
Imperator :: Imperator (n.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor..
Charter :: Charter (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption..
Water Gavel :: Water gavel () A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water..
Englishry :: Englishry (n.) The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
Prenomination :: Prenomination (n.) The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.
Inhabitancy :: Inhabitancy (n.) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy..
Infangthef :: Infangthef (n.) The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords.
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