Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others, The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity, In the civil law, a lien or priority of right of payment, such as the artisans' privilege, corresponding to the common-law lien of a bailee or the lien under mechanics' lien-laws, carriers' privilege, inn-keepers' privilege, etc. verb_ bestow a privilege upon, archaic To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest, transitive verb_ To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize, To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver