Aulic
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Aulic
noun
- Pertaining to a royal court.
- [⟨ aula, 2.] In anatomy, of or pertaining to the aula. Wilder.
- Formerly, in the University of Paris, the ceremony of conferring the degree of doctor in theology, including a harangue by the chancellor and a disputation upon a thesis written and defended by the candidate: so called because it was held in the great hall of the archbishopric.
- The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
adjective
- Pertaining to a royal court.