Definition of "aulic"
aulic1
adjective
comparative more aulic, superlative most aulic
Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
Quotations
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
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
Quotations
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."
2007, Francesco Carapezza, Giacomo Pugliese (fl. 1220—1240), entry in Gaetana Marrone (editor), Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, page 833
aulic2
adjective
not comparable
(biology) Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
Quotations
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