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privy council

noun as in advisory council

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The books of the Treasury and of the Privy Council were rescued, and are still preserved.

His continued efforts to suppress the drama finally led the troupes to appeal for re22lief to the Privy Council.

The Privy Council itself, no doubt, had issued such a general license when the company was organized under royal patronage.

The manner in which this step was followed up by the government subsequently was unfolded in a minute of the privy-council.

In 1760 the cabinet, an informal committee of the privy council, was an institution of a different character from that of to-day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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