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  • Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • A highly fortified domus attached directly to the cathedral in the early middle ages, the bishop's palace had become a spacious, unattached palatium by the late twelfth century.

    My first crack at mini book reviews 2008

  • A highly fortified domus attached directly to the cathedral in the early middle ages, the bishop's palace had become a spacious, unattached palatium by the late twelfth century.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • (M.H.G. “palas”, Lat. “palatium”) is a large building standing alone and largely used as a reception hall.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Regum palatium non tam diligenti custodia septum fuit, ac aedes meas stipabant, &c. 5288.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et quodammodo fabulantur Sarraceni, quod illo quandoque ingrediente cellulam, cellulæ ostium mutatum in ianuam valdè patentem, velut ante palatium, et gloriantur hoc primum miraculum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Roma, in qua et continetur valdè nobile palatium Imperiale.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Imperio Indiæ, eundo per multas diætas intratur in Pentoxyriæ quod est magnæ latitudinis, et abundantiæ in multis bonis: huius nominatior ciuitas, dicitur Nyse, et in ea habet Imperator palatium

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Sacerdotalis, et Regia, in qua Rex habet suum magnificum palatium, et summus Idolorum Pontifex quem Labassi appellant, cui omnes Regni obediunt et populi sicut Domino Papæ nos Christiani quoniam et iubet, et benedicit, ac confert sacerdotibus beneficia idolorum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Tempore pacis per terras proprias de palatio ad palatium, aut de regno ad regnum, dum tendere ei placet, comitatur vtique magna multitudine hominum antè et retrò, et ex vtroque laterum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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