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 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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |