or count palatine, a title anciently given to all persons who had any office or employment in the prince's palace; but afterwards conferred on those delegated by princes to hold courts of justice in the provinces; and on such among the lords as had a palace, that is, a court of justice, in their own houses.

At present the word palatine is restrained to a prince of Germany, or a lord of Poland, possessed of a palatine.

PALATO-SALPINGÆUS. See Anatomy, p. 303.