aulic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- interaulic adjective
Etymology
Origin of aulic
1695–1705; < Latin aulicus < Greek aulikós courtly, equivalent to aul ( ḗ ) hall, court + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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In 1787 he was appointed one of the professors of philosophy, and then of history at G�ttingen, and he afterwards was chosen aulic councillor, privy councillor, &c., the usual rewards of successful German scholars.
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The first recorded privilege in Germany was issued by the imperial Aulic Council in 1501, to the Rhenish Celtic Sodalitas for the printing of dramas of the nun-poet, Hroswitha, who had been dead for 600 years, as prepared by Celtes of Nuremberg.
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He created Titian a Count of the Lateran Palace, of the Aulic Council, and of the Consistory; with the title of Count Palatine, and all the advantages attached to those dignities.
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Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities.
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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.
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