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aulic
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Word definitions for aulic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aulic \Au"lic\, a. [L. aulicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? hall, court, royal court.] 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly. 2 (context architecture English) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace. 3 solemn. n. A ceremony at some European university to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
Usage examples of aulic.
The despatch, which was addressed to the Aulic Council of Vienna, was delivered to us on the night of the 8th of June.
If good policy had been followed the Aulic Council, instead of attacking me, would have sought my alliance in order to drive back the Russians to the north.
According to what seems useful at the moment, the Aulic chancellors swell or reduce the disaster.
Besides, just when the Russian general was about to resume his march, a new plan of campaign arrived, sent by the Aulic Council at Vienna.
The Austrian army was commanded by Field-marshal Mack, who, notwithstanding his shameful discomfiture in the south of Italy, in the year 1799, still passed with the Aulic Council as a great military genius.
Then a motion being made, that this dispute should be referred to the decision of the Aulic council at Vienna, it was carried in the affirmative by a majority of fourteen voices.
When the king of Prussia was put under the ban of the empire, the several princes who compose that body were required, by the decree of the Aulic council, as we observed before, to furnish their respective contingents against him.
The Aulic council too, seeing, or pretending to see, the behaviour of the landgrave in the same light, issued a decree against his serene highness towards the end of this year.
Decree of the Aulic Council against the Elector of Hanover and others.
As little formidable were the denunciations of the emperor, who had, by a decree of the Aulic council, communicated to the diet certain mandates, issued in the month of August in the preceding year, on pain of the ban of the empire, with avocatory letters annexed against the king of Great Britain, elector of Hanover, and the other princes acting in concert with the king of Prussia.