Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A count palatine; a palatine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ger. Hist.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
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- noun a
count of the Holy Roman Empire havingimperial powers in his own domain: a count palatine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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Long, who became palsgrave (1195-1211); in 1211 he resigned it to his son Henry the Younger, who d. childless (1214).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It derives its name from the title of a royal official in the old German Empire, the palsgrave (Pfalzgraf) or count palatine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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In 1155, after the death of the palsgrave Hermann of Stableck, Frederick
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The palsgrave of Lorraine, who had his seat at Aachen, was later esteemed the foremost in rank.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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In the thirteenth century the dignity of palsgrave was raised form its original ministerial character to complete independence, and the count palatine, largely in consequence of the union with Bavaria, became one of the powerful territorial magnates, subsequently the foremost of the secular princes of the empire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The _palsgrave_ (_Pfalz-Graf_) was first his representative in charge of one of these domains.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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Then he proceeded to turn it over, leaf by leaf, and took exact notice of all in it: and it being _full of pictures of sundry mens cuts_, he could tell the palsgrave, who seemed also to be knowing in that kind, that this and this, and that and that, were of such a man's graving and invention.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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I vaguely knew that the Count or Elector Palatine (an older equivalent is palsgrave), the ruler of the Palatinate, was so called (in the OED's words) "as exercising the sovereign's authority in certain matters, or as having a jurisdiction within a given territory such as elsewhere belongs to the sovereign alone," and I knew that the German equivalent of
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