[Ger., ad. L. comitāt-us.]
1. = COMITATUS.
1791. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 171. The magnats and comitats … were entirely bent upon a revolution.
2. A civil and administrative division in Hungary; a county.
1849. Blackw. Mag., LXV. 625. The comitat of Zala, through its representatives, demanded the names of the traitors who had misled the King.
