Meaning of aulic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
2. Pertaining to the reproductive ducts of certain organisms.
   not-comparable
3. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a palace.
4. Solemn.

Examples

“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.”

“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."”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

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