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palatinate, n.|pəˈlætɪnət, ˈpælətɪneɪt| Also 7 -at. [f. palatine n.1 + -ate1; in F. palatinat (1611 in Cotgr.).] 1. The territory or district under the rule or jurisdiction of a palatine or count-palatine.
1658Phillips, Palatinate, the Country or chief Seat of a Count Palatine or Paladine. 1669Lond. Gaz. No. 420/1 The Deputies of the Palatinates of Eraslavie, Podolie and Volime have put in a claim for a reimbursement of their Noblesse. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. ii. 20 The Realm [of Poland] being divided into Thirty four Palatinates or Governments. 1768Ann Reg. 13/2 The Russian army..formed a line in the palatinate of Cracovia. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 260 Over Europe there were inexhaustible varieties of palatinates, margravates, regalities, and the like, enjoying their own separate privileges. b. In England or Ireland: A county palatine or palatine earldom: see county1 7, palatine a.1 2 b. Also applied to American colonies the Proprietors of which had palatine rights. Such were Carolina, Maryland (1634–92, 1715–76), Maine: see palatine a.1 2 b, n.1 2 d.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 247 These two [Chester and Lancaster]..may be called Lay Palatinats with vs; for also of great autoritie are the other two of Durham and Ely, but both Bishopriques. 1656Blount Glossogr., Palatinate, or County Palatine, is a principal County or Shire, having as it were the same authority, as the Palace or Kings Royal Court hath. 1669J. Locke Const. Carolina ix. in 33 Dep. Kpr. Rep. 259 To every county there shall be three as y⊇ hereditary nobility of this pallatinate [Carolina]. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xviii. 351 In all these palatinates [in Ireland]..the king's process had its course only within the lands belonging to the church. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. ix. §98. 271 Two of these palatinates, the earldom of Chester and the bishopric of Durham, retained much of their character to our own days. 1882L. Stephen Swift i. 2 Godwin Swift was made Attorney-General in the palatinate of Tipperary by the Duke of Ormond. c. the Palatinate, Rhine P., a state of the old German Empire, under the rule of the Pfalzgraf or Count Palatine of the Rhine, one of the seven original electors of the Empire. It originally included the district immediately dependent upon Aachen, the original imperial capital, but afterwards comprised two districts called the Upper and Lower Palatinate, which were later absorbed in Bavaria and other adjacent states. Now part of Rhineland-Palatinate.
c1580Bacon State Europe Wks. 1879 I. 367/1 During the life of the last elector, Ludovic dwelt at Amberg in the higher Palatinate. 1619Lushington Repetit. Serm. in Phenix (1708) II. 477 The Catholick is for the Spanish Match, and the Protestant for restoring the Palatinate. 1637Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 74 It is said that some messinger shall be forthwith sent to the Emperour to demaund the Palatinates and the Electorate, and to give his Imperiall Majestie notice of this confederacy. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 12 Who..issues with calm and cruel apathy his orders to butcher the Protestants of Languedoc, or to lay in ashes the villages of the Palatinate. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxviii. 205 Germans, fugitives from the devastated Palatinate. 2. An inhabitant or native of the German Palatinate; cf. palatine n.1 5.
1709Lond Gaz. No. 4561/3 Proposals..for the Encouragement of the Palatinates Transportation into the Province of Carolina. 1890Critic (U.S.) 1 Feb. 51/2 Washington..encouraged the importation of the Palatinates who fled from Germany to find peace and comfort in the American colonies. 3. attrib. or adj. Of or belonging to a palatinate.
1672Petty Pol. Anat. vi. Tracts (1769) 326 There is also a palatinate court in Tipperary. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 75 He..procured from the incaution of Charles II. as ample a charter as was ever given to a palatinate state. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. ix. §98. 271 note, The palatinate jurisdiction of Durham was transferred to the crown in 1836. 1900Q. Rev. Apr. 425 A chief reason for his acceptance of the Palatinate See. Hence paˈlatinate v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to make into a palatinate or county palatine.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Chesh. i. (1662) 171 Lancashire..relateth to Cheshire as the copy to the original, being Palatinated but by King Edward the third, referring the Duke of Lancaster to have his regal jurisdiction. |