adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
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aulic
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UK: /ˈɔː.lɪk/
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adj
Meaning 2
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
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Topics: architecture
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adj
Meaning 3
Solemn.
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Examples
- 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."
- 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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adj
Meaning 4
Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A ceremony at some European universities to confer a Doctor of Divinity degree.
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History
Etymology
From Latin aulicus (“of a prince's court”), from aula (“royal court”), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”).
From Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós, “hollow tube, pipe”).