a. and sb. [ad. F. aulique, or L. aulicus, a. Gr. αὐλικός, f. αὐλή court: see -IC.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a court; courtly.
The Aulic Council, in the old German Empire, was the personal council of the Emperor, forming one of the two supreme courts of the Empire; it heard appeals from the courts of Germanic states, and was dissolved, with the Empire, in 1806. The name is now given to a council at Vienna, managing the war-department of the Austrian Empire.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3719/3. Baron Seylern … has notified to the Imperial Diet the Decrees of the Aulick Council.
1853. De Quincey, Wks., XIV. ii. 17. Investing the … homeliness of Æsop with aulic graces and satiric brilliancy.
B. sb. The ceremony observed in the Sorbonne in granting the degree of doctor of divinity, when, after a harangue from the chancellor, the new doctor received his cap and presided at a disputation.
