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County palatine   /kˈaʊnti pˈælətˌaɪn/   Listen
noun
County  n.  (pl. counties)  
1.
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl. (Obs.)
2.
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; called also a shire. See Shire. "Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation."
3.
A count; an earl or lord. (Obs.)
County commissioners. See Commissioner.
County corporate, a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. (Eng.)
County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county.
County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham.
County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. (Eng.)
County seat, a county town. (U.S.)
County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. (Eng.)
County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.


adjective
palatine  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, Possessing royal privileges.
2.
Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
3.
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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... between himself and his brother's wife, who has mistaken him for his twin brother. In fact the custom as William Wackernagel has shewn in Haupt's Zeitschrift fuer Deutsches Alterthum was one recognized by the law; and so late as 1477, when Lewis, County Palatine of Veldenz represented Maximilian of Austria as his proxy at the betrothal of Mary of Burgundy, he got into the bed of state, booted and spurred, and laid a naked sword between him and the bride. Comp. Birkens Ehrenspiegel, p. 885. See also as a proof that the custom was ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... upon the continent, As when the massy substance of the earth Quiver[s] about the axle-tree of heaven? Forgett'st thou that I sent a shower of darts, Mingled with powder'd shot and feather'd steel, So thick upon the blink-ey'd burghers' heads, That thou thyself, then County Palatine, The King of Boheme, [18] and the Austric Duke, Sent heralds out, which basely on their knees, In all your names, desir'd a truce of me? Forgett'st thou that, to have me raise my siege, Waggons ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe
... consequence; and, besides, bishops and the barons, who had their seats by their rank; but the two houses were not always divided:—except, indeed, that sometimes the Northern representatives met at York, the Southern at Northampton, and the county palatine of Durham had a little parliament to itself. Serving in Parliament was expensive and unpopular, and the sheriff of the county had not only to preside over the election of the member, but to send him safe to the place of meeting; and often the Commons broke up ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... through. That no common importance was attached to the observance of religious ordinances by his family, appears from the following memorandum by one of his descendants, which I am tempted to insert at length, as it is characteristic, and somewhat curious. 'There is a small chapel in the county palatine of Lancaster, where a certain clergyman has regularly officiated above sixty years, and a few months ago administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the same, to a decent number of devout communicants. After the clergyman ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


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