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The earliest euphemisms documented use of the word in this original sense of intimacy or familiarity between people dates from 1225, and privy council (a small group of advisers to the monarch) from 1300, when Edward I established it.
The WP adds that Lewis was privy to Lewinsky's taped account of her relationship with Clinton, and that her reaction to her daughter's attempt to conceal it from outsiders was, "What's the big deal?
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.
He'll know that time is up when his brother, working for the government and privy to top-secret information, sends him a telegram with the words "Alas, Babylon."