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count palatine
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Count palatine
(gcide) | palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]
1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a
palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
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2. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
[PJC]
3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
[PJC]
Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and
County.
Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of
Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See
also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.
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Count palatine
(gcide) | Count \Count\, n. [F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate,
companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one
who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to
go.]
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an
English earl.
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Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into
Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest
period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
--Brande & C.
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Count palatine.
(a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal
prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of
Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
[Eng.] See County palatine, under County.
(b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German
emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was
granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers
within his own domains. [Germany]
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count palatine
(wn) | count palatine
n 1: a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain |
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Count palatine
(gcide) | palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]
1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a
palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
[PJC]
3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
[PJC]
Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and
County.
Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of
Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See
also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.
[1913 Webster]Count \Count\, n. [F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate,
companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one
who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to
go.]
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an
English earl.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into
Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest
period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
--Brande & C.
[1913 Webster]
Count palatine.
(a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal
prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of
Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
[Eng.] See County palatine, under County.
(b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German
emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was
granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers
within his own domains. [Germany]
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