Salic
- of or relating to the Salian Franks.
Origin of Salic
Examples from the Web for salic
Historical Examples of salic
It was no longer a question of Salic law—a dispute whether a woman could reign.
Clare AveryEmily Sarah Holt
The texts of the Salic law give us incontrovertible evidence.
The Common LawOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne.
What Is Man? And Other StoriesMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
But the common and vulgar fool says: Must observe the Salic law.
The book of the ladiesPierre de Bourdeille Brantme
This shows how the Salic law was not kept, except as to the crown.
The book of the ladiesPierre de Bourdeille Brantme
salic
- (of rocks and minerals) having a high content of silica and alumina
Word Origin for salic
Salic
Salique
- of or relating to the Salian Franks or the Salic law
Word Origin and History for salic
Salic
"based on or contained in the law code of the Salian Franks," 1540s, from French Salique, from Medieval Latin Salicus, from the Salian Franks, a tribe that once lived near the Zuider Zee, the ancestors of the Merovingian kings, literally "those living near the river Sala" (modern Ijssel).
Salic Law, code of law of Germanic tribes, was invoked 1316 by Philip V of France to exclude a woman from succeeding to the throne of France (and later to combat the French claims of Edward III of England), but the precise meaning of the passage is unclear.