【法】 大法官, 享有王权的伯爵

[ noun ]
a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain
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palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See {Palace}, and cf. {Paladin}.]
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.
[PJC]

3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
[PJC]

{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 C[ae]sars. See
also {Palatine Hill} in the vocabulary, and {Palace}.


Count \Count\, n. [F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate,
companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one
who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to
go.]
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an
English earl.

Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into
Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest
period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
--Brande & C.

{Count palatine}.
(a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal
prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of
Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
[Eng.] See {County palatine}, under {County}.
(b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German
emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was
granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers
within his own domains. [Germany]