Palatinate
(4 syl.). The province of a palatine, as the Palatinate of the
Rhine, in Germany A palatine is an officer whose court is held in the
royal palace, also called a palace-greave or pfalzgraf. There were
three palatine counties in England—viz. Chester, Durham, and
Lancaster, in which the count exercised a royal authority, just as
supreme as though he had been the regal tenant of the palace itself
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