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Salic, a.1|ˈsælɪk, ˈseɪlɪk|
Also 6 Salicque, 6–7 -like, 7 Sallick, 7–8 Salick, 6–9 Salique.
[ad. F. salique or med.L. Salicus, f. Saliī (see Salian2).]
1. Salic law: in early use, and still in popular language, the alleged fundamental law of the French monarchy, by which females were excluded from succession to the crown; hence gen. a law excluding females from dynastic succession. In this sense still often spelt Salique and pronounced |səˈliːk|.
The ancient text which under the name of the ‘Salic law’ was adduced in favour of the succession of Philip V in 1316, and afterwards used to combat the claims of Edward III of England (and his successors) to the French crown, was really a quotation from the Lex Salica (see sense 2); the words however (cap. lix. §5 of modern editions) have no reference to succession to the crown, but merely state that a woman can have no portion of the inheritance of ‘Salic land’ (terra Salica); the precise meaning of this term is disputed, and in the earliest form of the code the word ‘Salic’ is omitted.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V (1550) 4 b, The lawe Salicque was only fayned and invented to put your noble progenitours and you [Hen. V.] from your lawfull right and true inheritaunce. For they say that Pharamond made the lawe for the land Salicque, which the glose calleth Fraunce. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 39. Ibid. 91 They would hold vp this Salique Law, To barre your Highnesse clayming from the Female. 1674Ch. & Crt. of Rome 29 In despite of the Sallick Law, [they] endeavour that the Infanta..should succeed unto the Crown. 1837[see Salian2]. 1842W. Irving Life & Lett. (1866) III. 233 By long usage, the Salique law of France..had become naturalized in Spain. 1847Tennyson Princess ii. 117 She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
transf.1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 2 Orinda does in that too raign, Does Man behind her in proud Triumph draw, And Cancel great Apollo's Salick Law. 1773H. More Search Happ. ii. 139, I scorn'd the salique law of pedant schools, Which chain our genius down by tasteless rules. 1870Huxley Lay Serm. ii. 29 Nature's old salique law will not be repealed.
2. In the original sense of L. Salicus: Pertaining to the Salian Franks. Chiefly in Salic law or Salic code (L. Lex Salica), a Frankish law-book, written in Latin, and extant in five successively enlarged recensions of Merovingian and Carolingian date.
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxviii. (1787) III. 583 Before the election of the Merovingian kings, the most powerful tribe, or nation, of the Franks, appointed four venerable chieftains to compose the Salic laws. Ibid. 594 Besides these royal and beneficiary estates, a large proportion had been assigned, in the division of Gaul, of allodial and Salic lands. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 476/1 The Salic code..shows us the Salian king as in all respects the centre of his state.
Hence ˈsalicly (saliquely) adv., with reference to the Salic law.
1784H. Walpole Lett. to C'tess Ossory (1848) II. 207 Numerous as were the sons of Edward III., only Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, continued the masculine line, and I cannot (upon memory alone) affirm that. If he did, the Duke of Buckingham beheaded by Henry VIII., had saliquely speaking the best title to the Crown. |