\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.

\Au"lic\, n.
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).