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Native of old German Empire
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palatinate
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Palatinate or County Palatine may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
palatinate \pa*lat"i*nate\, n. [F. palatinat. See Palatine .] The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. --Howell.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a palatinate or the Palatinate n. 1 A territory ruled by a palatine 2 A native or inhabitant of such a territory
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from palatine + -ate (1). In England and Ireland, a county palatine; also used of certain American colonies (Carolina, Maryland, Maine).
Usage examples of palatinate.
No: a cardinal of that name was the man responsible for the transportationthe theftof the Bibliotheca Palatina in 1623, after the Catholic armies invaded the Palatinate.
She loses sovereignty over the northeasternmost tip of East Prussia, 40 square miles north of the River Memel, and the internationalized areas about Danzig, 729 square miles, and the basin of the Saar, 738 square miles, between the western border of the Rhenish Palatinate of Bavaria and the southeast corner of Luxembourg.
The next document, dated a year later and impressed with the same seal, was of similar import but extended the commission beyond the Czech lands to include Austria, Styria, Mainz and both the Upper and the Lower Palatinate, as well asmost remarkable of allthe lands of the Ottoman Sultan.
Archbishops of Mayence, Treves and Cologne, the three German temporal princes, the Electors of the Rhenish Palatinate, Saxony, and Brandenburg, and in addition the King of Bohemia, who, save for purposes of the imperial choice, did not count as a member of the Germanic body.
A league formed by Treves, the Palatinate and Hesse, defeated him and captured his castle at Landstuhl in May, 1523.
Mennonites, Schwenkenfelders, Dunkards, Moravians and Amish, but it was the Amish in particular who spoke the Palatinate dialect of High German that eventually evolved into the tongue that most know as Pennsylvania Dutch.
I have witnesses to bear me out -- even in Leipzig, in Pirna, and months later, after Mahlke had discarded his own, a few isolated pairs made their appearance as far west as the Rhineland and the Palatinate.
He was the chief general for the Bavarian forces in a number of battles in the first half of the war, including the Battle of the White Mountain in 1621 which routed the Protestants rallied under the banner of the Elector of the Palatinate, King Frederick of Bohemia, and returned control of Bohemia and Moravia to the Austrian Habsburgs.
The counts of the Palatinate had been mercantilists before mercantilism, so to speak.
You have the face of someone who stands to inherit two palatinates and an isle somewhere I never heard of, and the manners of a shoemaker, and when you say you're not afraid to die, you think you mean it, and under that you believe you don't.
She hadn't remarked on my evening wear the palatinate reefer jacket, the plump-winged bow-tie, the pink cummerbund that had taken my fancy, the lacquered spats so I assumed I looked the part.
War, when the Palatinate was handed over to the Winter Queen in the peace settlement, his family helped them establish their royal household in what remained of Heidelberg Castle.
If I have received no word from the Palatinate by tomorrow I shall have little choice but to strike out on my own, though I have no idea how to manage it.
Although the Wettin family were natives of Thuringia and Saxony rather than of the Palatinate, there was little doubt in Bö.
This second part of the Palatinate was the center of the south German iron trade.