The Collaborative International Dictionary
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]
Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
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Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
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.
Wikipedia
The Palatine was the name given to an express passenger train, introduced by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938: the 10.00 from Manchester Central to London St Pancras and the return working, the 16.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central.
A matching service, the 10.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central, and the 16.25 from Manchester Central to St Pancras, introduced in the same year, was named the Peaks Express.
Both services were suspended at the outbreak of World War II. However British Railways resurrected the Palatine name postwar for the 07.55 from St Pancras and the 14.25 from Manchester. This train made the trip in 3 hours 55 minutes, with stops at Chinley, Millers Dale, Matlock, Derby and Leicester. The name was withdrawn in 1964.
The direct line to Derby via Millers Dale was closed in 1968. Today there are no direct passenger services between Manchester and St Pancras.
Usage examples of "the palatine".
On this occasion, I did have a fairly good view when each of the two young men took his own company and began his run around the base of the Palatine Hill.
The ladies of the Palatine Hill would never recognize in this wiry, weary man, wrapped in every warm garment he owned or could dice for, the aristocrat in his white toga with the broad purple stripe.
From here he could see over the Palatine wall to the southern city and the sea.
Then I sat on the deck with my feet up on an anchor, studying my notes from the Palatine secretariat which administered funds for the Great King's palace.
The main body was at the Palatine when I left them, and will be across the river by now.
The whole region of the Palatine Mount, on which it was built, occupied, at most, a circumference of eleven or twelve thousand feet, (see the Notitia and Victor, in Nardini's Roma Antica.
Finally there were the bright uniforms of the Corps Helvetica -- the Swiss Guard -- as well as commanders of the Palatine Guard reconstituted by Pope Julius, and the first appearance of the commander of the hitherto secret Noble Guard -- a pale, dark-haired man in a solid red uniform.
The Inquisitor and his aide, Father Farrell, were passed through detector portals and handheld sensors -- first at the Swiss Guard checkpoint, then at the Palatine Guard station, and finally at the new Noble Guard post.