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aulic, a. and n.|ˈɔːlɪk| [ad. F. aulique, or L. aulicus, a. Gr. αὐλικός, f. αὐλή court: see -ic.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to a court; courtly. The Aulic Council, in the old German Empire, was the personal council of the Emperor, forming one of the two supreme courts of the Empire; it heard appeals from the courts of Germanic states, and was dissolved, with the Empire, in 1806. The name was subsequently given to a council at Vienna, managing the war-department of the Austrian Empire.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3719/3 Baron Seylern..has notified to the Imperial Diet the Decrees of the Aulick Council. 1853De Quincey Wks. XIV. ii. 17 Investing the..homeliness of æsop with aulic graces and satiric brilliancy. B. n. The ceremony observed in the Sorbonne in granting the degree of doctor of divinity, when, after a harangue from the chancellor, the new doctor received his cap and presided at a disputation. |