Aulic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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