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/kaʊnt pˈælətˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Count n. A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl. 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.

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)

adjective

palatine adj.

Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, Possessing royal privileges.

Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.

Of or pertaining to a Palatine (1).

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 Caesars. See also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.

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"Count palatine" Quotes from Famous Books

... ladies, Eleanora, was married to Emanuel, king of Portugal,—a man old enough to be her father, with some years to spare,—being sacrificed to the ambition of her brother Charles, for she was attached to the Count Palatine. Becoming a widow, she was compelled to give her hand to that popular rascal, Francis I. of France, when her brother wished to strengthen the treaty he made with his "good brother" at Madrid, and which the Frenchman had arranged to disregard even before he signed ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics • Various

... not lived to see this fruit of his long efforts to please everybody. He had gone to his rest the year before; and now there ruled in Bruges his son, Baldwin the Good, "Count Palatine," as he styled himself, and his wife Richilda, ...

— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... the father pronounced a fervent blessing over his son's head, and told me that he was count palatine, shewing me the diploma which he had received from the Pope. I embraced him, giving him his title of count, and pocketed his letter ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt