aulic

Aulic \Au"lic\, n.
   The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of
   divinity in some European universities. It begins by a
   harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who
   then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also
   called the aulic).
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Aulic \Au"lic\, a. [L. aulicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? hall, court, royal
   court.]
   Pertaining to a royal court.
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         Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. --Landor.
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   {Aulic council} (Hist.), a supreme court of the old German
      empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It
      ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by
      his successor. It became extinct when the German empire
      was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a
      council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and
      the members of different provincial chanceries of that
      empire are called aulic councilors. --P. Cyc.
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