palatine
adjective
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of or relating to a palace
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of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
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relating to or lying near the palatepalatal
noun
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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 orbitspalatine boneos palatinum
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(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his landspalsgrave
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any of various important officials in ancient Rome