palatine
IPA: pˈæɫʌtaɪn
Root Word: Palatine
noun
- One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.
- A village in Cook County, Illinois.
- A hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland.
- A town in Montgomery County, New York.
- A feudal lord (ellipsis of count palatine.) or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
- A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
- (capitalized, rare, obsolete) A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.
- (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
- (historical) A fur cape or stole for women which covers the neck and shoulders.
- (historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.. [(historical) A county, usually a marchland, whose ruler was granted near-royal authority within its area while still owing allegiance to the realm's king or emperor.]
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.. [(anatomy) Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.]
adjective
- (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
- Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
- Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
- Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
- Synonym of palatial.
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
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Examples of "palatine" in Sentences
- Because it was a county palatine.
- Horizontal plate of palatine bone.
- The tinctures are the Palatine colours.
- For the etymology of the word, see Palatine.
- Between these two, arches is the palatine tonsil.
- On the last assignment, he negotiated for the restitution of the Palatine.
- By the time of the Palatine war of succession, the castle was very dilapidated.
- The distressed family of the palatine was a great burden on James, during part of his reign.
- Its lower portion, which hangs like a curtain between the mouth and pharynx is termed the palatine velum.
- That no serious trouble ever came from the so-called palatine earldoms is itself evidence of the powerful monarchy ruling in England.
- “Because it was once a county palatine and the cats cannot help laughing whenever they think of it, though I see no great joke in it.”
- An English ‘county palatine’ was a county over which an earl or lord originally had royal privileges with the right of exclusive civil and criminal jurisdiction.
- Thus Reichert interpreted the "palatine" and "pterygoid," which are formed in the mouth of the newt larva by a fusion of conical teeth, as special adaptations to enable the little larva to lead a carnivorous life. [
- "palatine" clergy, from the middle of the twelfth century, coupled with the disappearance of the judices palatini, tended to enlarge the share of the cardinals in the administration of papal justice and finances, also of the fiefs of the Holy See and of the States of the
- Its skeleton segmented, as in mammals and birds, into three parts; the upper part gave rise to the palatine and pterygoid in Anura, but seemed to disappear in Urodeles, where the so-called palatine and pterygoid developed in the mucous membrane of the mouth; the middle part gave, as in birds, the quadrate, which formed a suspensorium for both arches; the lower part, as Meckel's cartilage, formed a foundation for the bones of the lower jaw.
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