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made ufe of to render this bitter potion palatable! Addi- 
fon. 
They, by the alluring odour drawn in hafte, 
Fly to the dulcet cates, and, crowding, fip 
Their palatable bane. Philips. 
PALAT'CHA, or Palatsa, a town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, in Natolia, iituated near the coait of the Archipela¬ 
go. It is eight miles north of Milets, and twenty-one 
l’outh of Scalanova. Lat. 37. 31. N. Ion. 27. 12. E. 
PALAT'CHY, a town of Hindooftan : fifteen miles 
fouthof Coimbetore. 
PAL'ATE, J'. [ palatum , Lat.] The inftrument of 
tafte ; the upper part or roof of the mouth.—Light and 
colours come in only by the eyes; all kind of founds only 
by the ears ; the feveral taftes and fmells by the nofe and 
palate. Locke. 
By nerves about our palate plac'd 
She likewifejudges of the tafte; 
Elfe, difmal thought ! our warlike men 
Might drink thick port for fine champagne. Prior. 
The vulgar boil, the learned roaft, an egg; 
Hard tafte to hit the palate of fuch guefts. Pope. 
Mental relifli ; intellectual tafte.—It may be the palate of 
the foul is difpofed by liftleffnefs orforrow. Taylor. — The 
men of nice palates could not relilh Ariftotle, as dreft up 
by the fchoolmen. Baker on Learning. 
To PALATE, v.a. To perceive by the tafte. 
He merits well to have her, that doth feek her 
(Not making any fcruple of her foilure) 
With fuch a hell of pain, and world of charge ; 
And you as well to keep her, that defend her 
(Not palating the tafte of her difhonour) 
With fuch a coftly lofs of wealth and friends. Shahcfpeare. 
PALA'TIAL, adj. [from palatum, Lat.] Befitting a 
palace; magnificent.—A magnificent ftrudture, faid to 
have been a monaftery : I rather luppofe it to have been 
thegrand-commanderie of the ifiand, for it is built in the 
palatial ftile of thofe days. Drummond. 
PALAT'IC, adj. [from palate.'] Belonging to the pa¬ 
late or roof of the mouth.—The three labials, p, b, m, 
are parallel to the three gingival, t, d, n, and to the three 
palatic, It, g, l. Holder. 
PALAT'INATE, f. [palatinatus , Lat.] A province 
or lignory poffefled by a palatine, and from which he 
takes his title and dignity. 
The palatinates now fubfifting, are either thofe of 
Germany or Poland. Thofe of Germany are the princi¬ 
palities of the Upper and Lowpr Rhine ; that is, of Bava¬ 
ria, and the Rhine. The palatinates in Poland are the 
provinces and diftrifts of the Polifti grandees or fenators, 
who are the governors thereof. 
PALAT'INATE OF THE RHI'NE, or Lower Pa¬ 
latinate, a country of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine ; bounded on the north by the deflorate of 
Mentz and Catzenelnbogen ; on the eaft by Catzenelnbo- 
gen, the eleflorate of Mentz, the biftiopric of Worms, 
and a part of Franconia ; on the fouth, by the duchy of 
Wurtemberg and the biftiopric of Spire ; and on tftie weft 
by France, the duchies of Deux Ponts andSimmern, and 
the county of Sponheim. The greateft extent about 
eighty miles. This country indeed is partly mountain¬ 
ous, but yet uncommonly fertile, producing in abun¬ 
dance all manner of corn, pulfe, fruit, chefnuts, and 
walnuts; and having alfo fine pafturage, and a good breed 
of cattle; together with plantations of tobacco, particu¬ 
larly between Heidelberg and Manheim, as alfo good 
Neckarand Rhenifh wine: the latter of thefe wines grows 
chiefly about Bacharach, and likewife on the Bergftrafs. 
This Bergftrafs is an agreeeble highway, fituated between 
Heidelberg and Darmftadt, which is planted with walnut- 
trees, and on both fides has fruitful fields and meadows, 
intermixed with hills and mountains, which on the right 
fide of the road (namely, in travelling from Heidelberg to 
Darmftadt), run to a confiderable length, and are covered 
on the fummits with woodsj but towards the plain with 
vines. On all parts of the Bergftrafs alfo grow almonds 
in great plenty, and in the vineyards up and down are 
chefnut-trees. The Rhine runs partly through the bor¬ 
ders of this eleftorate-palatine, partly through its centre. 
In it alfo, near Germerfheim and Seitz, out of the fands 
is walked the beft gold ; and to this gold the Rhenilhgold 
florins owe their origin. The eleflorate-palatine contains 
in it forty-one towns and feveral boroughs. The eccle- 
fiaftical ftate has been fubjefted to a variety of alterations; 
the doflrines of Calvin and Luther having prevailed by 
turns, after the reformation had been at firft introduced in 
the year 1518. The name and origin of the palatines, or 
phalzgraves, is deduced from the palatia, or palaces, (in 
the language of this country called palzen, phalzen, or 
pfalzen\) which the old Frankilh and German kings and 
Roman emperors were pofleffed of in various places, and 
over which they appointed fupreme ftewards and judges, 
who were ftyled pfallenzgraves or pfalzgraves. The addi¬ 
tion of by or on the Rhine firft occurs in the year 1093. 
The eleftoral palatinate, ever fince the refignation of the 
Upper Palatinate to theeleflorof Bavaria, paid only the 
half of the eleftoral evaluation. All that part of the pa¬ 
latinate which lay on the left fide of the Rhine was by 
the peace of Luneville ceded to France, and formed the 
department of Mont Tonnerre. That department was, 
however, entirely taken from France at the peace of 
1815 ; part of it was given to the grand-duke of Heffe, 
and the reft of it (we believe) to the emperor of Auftria. 
PALAT'INATE (Upper, or Bavarian), a part of Ba¬ 
varia, bounded on the welhand north-weft by Franconia, 
on the eaft and north-eaft by Bohemia, and on the fouth 
by the duchy of Neuburg and Lower Bavaria. This 
country, in the twelfth century, belonged to the dukes 
of Swabia. They afterwards were annexed to the palati¬ 
nate of the Rhine. In the year 1354, a great part was 
fold to Bohemia; and, after often changing its lords, at 
laft, by the peace of Baden, in the year 1714, it was 
ceded to the eleftor of Bavaria; and was confirmed to 
him, with the title of king, by the treaty of Vienna, June 
1815. Amberg is the capital of the Bavarian palatinate. 
PAL'ATINE, adj. Pofleffing royal privileges.—Many 
of thofe lords, to whom our kings had granted thofe 
petty kingdoms, did exercife jura regalia, infomuch as 
there were no lefs than eight counties-pa/atine in Ireland 
at one time. Davies on Ireland. 
PAL'ATINE, or Count Palatine, a title anciently 
given to all perfons who had any office or employment in 
the prince’s palace. The appellation is derived hence, 
that, anciently, the emperors fent the judges of their pa¬ 
lace, whom they called comites palatini, or pals-graves, to 
correAt the abufes of the other judges in the provinces of 
Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, and the Rhine. Matthaeus 
fays, that the palatines were originally thofe who had the 
fuperintendance of the palace ; the fame with what the 
Greeks called curopalatce, and the French maitres da 
palais; though, in time, the name became more general. 
Palatine was afterwards a title conferred on thofe de¬ 
legated by princes to hold courts of juftice in the pro¬ 
vinces ; and on fuch among the lords as had a palace, 
that is, a court of juftice, in their own houfes. The 
French writers make the palatines of Champagne to be 
the firft who bore that title; which, they will have it,the 
Germans and other people borrowed from them, not they 
from the Germans. 
PAL'ATINE, adj. [from palate.] An epithet applied 
to matiy parts about the roof of the mouth : as the pala¬ 
tine artery, a branch of the internal maxillary ; the pala¬ 
tine glands ; th e palatine dufts, which U'ere fuppofed com¬ 
munications between the nofe and mouth through the 
anterior palatine holes, or foramina ineijiva ; the palatine 
nerves, branches of the fuperior maxillary ; the palatine 
procefies of the fuperior maxillary and palate-bones. See 
Anatomy. 
PAL'ATINE; 
