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Definition of Palatine
1. Adjective. Relating to or lying near the palate. "The palatine tonsils"
2. Noun. Any of various important officials in ancient Rome.
3. Adjective. Of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives.
4. Noun. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.
Generic synonyms: Lord, Noble, Nobleman
Category relationships: Dark Ages, Middle Ages
5. Adjective. Of or relating to a palace.
6. Noun. The most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces.
7. Noun. Either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits.
Definition of Palatine
1. a. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
2. n. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
3. a. Of or pertaining to the palate.
4. n. A palatine bone.
Definition of Palatine
1. Proper noun. One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the Palatine Hill in Rome. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to powers normally possessed by a sovereign but exercised by a lesser noble, or by a nominee of a sovereign. ¹
4. Adjective. Of or relating to a palace, particularly for the Eastern and Western Roman emperors. ¹
5. Adjective. Of or relating to a palatine or a palatinate, especially the Rhineland Palatinate. ¹
6. Noun. A Roman soldier. ¹
7. Noun. A Roman or Byzantine official. ¹
8. Noun. A feudal lord, (a ''Pfalzgraf'' or Count-palatine), or a bishop possessing palatine powers. ¹
9. Noun. The highest dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary after the king. ¹
10. Adjective. Of or relating to the palate ¹
11. Adjective. Of or relating to a palatine bone. ¹
12. Noun. (anatomy) One of a pair of bones behind the palate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palatine
1. a high officer of an empire [n -S]
Medical Definition of Palatine
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1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
2. The Palatine hill in Rome.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatine
Literary usage of Palatine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The descending or palatine branches are distributed to the roof of the ...
They are almost a direct continuation of the spheno-palatine branches of the ..."
2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"It gains entrance to the nasal cavity through the spheno-palatine foramen, ...
The septal branch of this vessel accompanies the naso-palatine nerve, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"This use of the word palatine was adopted by the Prankish kings of the ...
Other counts palatine were employed on military and administrative work, ..."
4. The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the ...by Edward Coke by Edward Coke (1671)
"Of the County palatine of ... palatine bp з* Н.б. ... palatine remaining in »fa
Wolf étala', ..."
5. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1897)
"... within the furrow, and Dionysius states that Vesta's temple was outside it.
The furrow followed the foot of the cliffs or slopes of the palatine, ..."
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