AULIC
Etymology 1
Adjective
aulic (comparative more aulic, superlative most aulic)
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
(architecture) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
Solemn.
Noun
aulic (plural aulics)
A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
Etymology 2
Adjective
aulic (not comparable)
(biology) Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
Anagrams
• Lucia, cauli
Source: Wiktionary
Au"lic, a. Etym: [L. aulicus, Gr.
Definition: Pertaining to a royal court.
Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. Landor.
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.
Au"lic, n.
Definition: 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).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition