aulic

comparative more aulic · superlative most aulic

1. Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.

   Derived ultimately from imperial aulic art, the scheme was well established in the Christian repertoire by the ninth century.

   2003, Jane Hawkes, “Iuxta Morem Romanarum: Stone and Sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England”, in Catherine E. Karkov, George Hardin Brown, editors, Anglo-Saxon Styles, page 79

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   Never can there be safety, or indeed peace, in the nations you have redeemed from bondage, while a neighbour is apprehensive of the principles you have laid down, and can hold out ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities, to unreflecting avarice and unenlightened ambition.

   1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Imaginary Conversations: Suppressed Dedications, to Bolivar the Liberator”, in T. Earle Welby, editor, The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor, page 138

   But an increased sense of ambition, the coming into existence of an urban, aulic nobility, and the decay of religious life added to the friction and the desire to be "equal."

   1943, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd, Or, Procrustes at Large, page 50

   Yet surprisingly, given the varied activities of aulic doctors as propagandists, diplomats, and medical politicians, medicine within the patrician setting of the royal court has been largely neglected.

   2001, Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts, page 254

2. architectureOf, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.

   The basic structure of the villa is aulic, with perpendicular rooms at either end of the main hall.

   2004, Michael Kulikowski, Late Roman Spain and Its Cities, page 303

3. Solemn.

   2011, Andrew Frisardi, Introduction, Dante Alighieri, Andrew Frisardi (translator), Vita Nova, page xxii, Other times, for heightened effect, the language is in a more aulic register, laced with Latinisms and with words derived from the Provençal and Sicilian traditions.

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   Comparisons of Charon's eyes to a light at night and a festive bonfire add a popular touch that has its own effectiveness when compared to the more aulic poetry of the time.

   1985, Ronnie H. Terpening, Charon and the Crossing: Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Transformations of a Myth, page 140

   2007, Francesco Carapezza, Giacomo Pugliese (fl. 1220—1240), entry in Gaetana Marrone (editor), Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, page 833, Otherwise, Giacomino's most aulic and rhetorically ambitious piece is a lament for the death of the beloved, Morte, perché m'hai fatta sì gran guerra (Death, Why Have You Warred Against Me So), the oldest Italian example of its kind, together with Pier della Vigne's "Amando con fin core e con speranza."

plural aulics

1. A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.

1. not comparablebiologyPertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.

   The term aulic refers to a pipe, and considerable confusion has been caused by applying this term to the number of sexual openings instead of the number of separate ducts (Beeman, 1977).

   2013, E. R. Trueman, M. R. Clarke, Evolution, page 237

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   The first reference to the internal anatomy of species of Cassidula was by Odhner (1925), who divided the Ellobiidae H. and A. Adams in Pfeiffer, 1854, into two large groups, on the basis of the aulic condition of the pallial gonoducts.

   1998, Brian Morton, The Marine Biology of the South China Sea III, page 25