1) Body that advises a monarch
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advisors to the sovereign
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[Northern Ireland] The Privy Council of Northern Ireland is a formal body of advisors to the sovereign and was a vehicle for the monarch`s prerogative powers in Northern Ireland. It was modelled on the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. The Council was created in 1922 as a result of the division of Ireland into the Irish Free State and No...
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A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word `privy` means `private` or `secret`; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch`s closest advisors to give confidential advice on affairs of state. == Privy councils == === ...
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(from the article `France`) ...like the High Council, were presided over by the king in person. But the royal council also met without the king under three further titles to ...
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historically, the British sovereign`s private council. Once powerful, the Privy Council has long ceased to be an active body, having lost most of its ... [5 related articles]
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Council composed originally of the chief royal officials of the Norman kings in Britain; under the Tudors and early Stuarts it became the chief governing body. It was replaced from 1688 by the...
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A ceremonial body made up of all present and former cabinet ministers.
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Eng. law. A council of state composed of the king and of such persons as he may select. PRIVY SEAL - Eng. law. A seal which the king uses to such grants or things as pass the great seal. PRIVY VERDICT - One which is delivered privily to a judge out of court.
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n] - an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British crown)
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noun an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British crown)
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Council composed originally of the chief royal officials of the Norman kings in Britain; under the Tudors and early Stuarts it became the chief governing body. It was replaced from 1688 by the cabinet, originally a committee of the council, and the council itself now retains only formal powers in issuing royal proclamations and orders in counci...
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Formal body of advisors to the monarch, now constituted from senior politicians within the House of Lords and Commons. During the course of the eighteenth century, the cabinet emerged from the larger Privy Council as the effective executive body at the heart of government, overtaking it in importance.
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a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign. · (caps.) (in Great Britain) a body of persons who advise the sovereign in matters of state, the majority of members being selected by the prime minister. · (sometimes caps.) any similar body, as one appointed to assist the governor of a British dominion.
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