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privilege
English
Alternative forms
- priviledg, priviledge (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English privilege, from Anglo-Norman privilege and Old French privilege, from Latin pr?vil?gium (“ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual”), from pr?vus (“private”) + l?x, l?g- (“law”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??v(?)l?d?/
- Hyphenation: priv?i?lege, privi?lege
Noun
privilege (countable and uncountable, plural privileges)
- (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope. [from 8th c.]
- (countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment. [from 10th c.]
- Synonyms: franchise, freelage, immunity, prerogative, right
- An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something). [from 14th c.]
- 2012, The Observer, letter, 29 April:
- I had the privilege to sit near him in the House for a small part of his Commons service and there was an additional device provided to aid his participation in debates.
- 2012, The Observer, letter, 29 April:
- (uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society. [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: advantage, foredeal
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Melibeus:
- He is worthy to lesen his priuilege that mysvseth the myght and the power that is yeuen hym.
- 2013, The Guardian, 21 Oct, (headline):
- South Africa's 'miracle transition' has not put an end to white privilege.
- A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members. [from 16th c.]
- Synonym: immunity
- 2001, The Guardian, leader, 1 May:
- Dr Grigori Loutchansky is – according to a congressman speaking under congressional privilege – a "purported Russian mob figure".
- (countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option. [from 19th c.]
- (law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
- (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
- Synonym: permission
Synonyms
- claim, liberty
Derived terms
- cisprivilege
Translations
Verb
privilege (third-person singular simple present privileges, present participle privileging, simple past and past participle privileged)
- (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
- (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Related terms
- allege
Translations
References
- privilege at OneLook Dictionary Search
- privilege in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- privilege in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Old French
Noun
privilege m (oblique plural privileges, nominative singular privileges, nominative plural privilege)
- privilege (benefit only given to certain people)
Descendants
- ? English: privilege
- Middle French: privilege
- French: privilège
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (privilege, supplement)
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exercise
English
Alternative forms
- exercice (obsolete; noun senses only)
Etymology
From Middle English exercise, from Old French exercise, from Latin exercitium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
- Hyphenation: ex?er?cise
Noun
exercise (countable and uncountable, plural exercises)
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- an exercise of the eyes and memory
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message
- exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
- O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
- December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.
- Lewis […] refused even those of the church of England […] the public exercise of their religion.
- (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
exercise (third-person singular simple present exercises, present participle exercising, simple past and past participle exercised)
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
Translations
See also
- train
- work out
Further reading
- exercise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- exercise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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