[f. prec. + -ATE1.] The office or position of czar or tsar.
1863. S. Edwards, Polish Captivity, I. 298–9. In 1611, Ladislas … was offered the Tsarate of Muscovy by the Council of Boyars.
1882. Costelloe, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 414/2. Without really endangering the Czarate.
