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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[D.

paltsgraaf

;

palts

palace (l.

palatium

) +

graaf

count; cf. G.

pfalzgraf

. See

, and

(Ger. Hist.)

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.

Noun.

pawlzgrave. [L. palatium, palace, and graf, an earl.] A count or earl who has the superintendence of the king's palace.

palsgrave ‎(plural palsgraves)

A count palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, possessing near-royal powers within his county.
- 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion
  When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.