Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a royal court.
- [⟨ aula, 2.] In anatomy, of or pertaining to the aula. Wilder.
- noun Formerly, in the University of Paris, the ceremony of conferring the degree of doctor in theology, including a harangue by the chancellor and a disputation upon a thesis written and defended by the candidate: so called because it was held in the great hall of the archbishopric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a royal court.
- adjective (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 . - noun 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 ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
royal court ;courtly - noun A
ceremony at someEuropean universities to confer a doctor of divinitydegree
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Examples
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The agency said it issued a subpoena because Halliburton failed to turn over information necessary to move forward with a congressionally requested study of hydr aulic fracturing, or " fracking, " in which large amounts of water laden with sand and chemicals are pumped deep underground to release natural gas trapped inside rock.
Agency Pushes Halliburton to Hand Over Drilling Data Stephen Power 2010
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Germany prehistorically sentimental and aulic, ringing all the changes of a Pomeranian mysticism.
The Captive 2003
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At first this sentence was the act of the [v. 03 p. 0305] emperor or king himself, but as the Empire became more German, and its administration less personal, it was entrusted to the imperial aulic council (_Reichshofrat_), and to the imperial court of justice or imperial chamber (_Reichskammergericht_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Italy, and was then made aulic councillor in 1735.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Crown of the third class; on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, he received the title and character of an aulic councillor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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As aulic councillor for ecclesiastical affairs, Gruber drafted the statute of organization for the Archdiocese of Salzburg, on his succession to which he laboured in the true spirit of St. Augustine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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+ The Schwenkfeldians were founded by Kaspar of Schwenkfeld, aulic councillor of Duke Frederick of Liegnitz and canon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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It would be just as correct to term poetry _economic_, because there have been aulic and stipendiary poets, and there are poets the sale of whose verses helps them to gain their livelihood, if it does not altogether provide it.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Under such conditions, then, aulic cabals and chamber cabinets are sure to become dominant sometimes.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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It was in that country that the emperor Maximilian became acquainted with the institution; and by the erection of the aulic councils at Innspruck and Vienna (1498 and 1501), he gave the principal impulse to the imitation of it in Germany.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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