C18: from Latin aulicus, from Greek aulikos belonging to a prince's court, from aulē court
aulic in American English
(ˈɔlɪk)
adjective
of or pertaining to a royal court
Word origin
[1695–1705; ‹ L aulicus ‹ Gk aulikós courtly, equiv. to aul(e᷄) hall, court + -ikos-ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1695–1705. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chaise, mimosa, nucleus, pinwheel, piston-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'aulic' in a sentence
aulic
Besides serving as dwelling houses, palaces are to be considered as aulic peripheric spaces.
Éric Hassler 2011, 'Dans l'ombre de la cour impériale : les palais aristocratiques viennois. Distribution,ameublements intérieurs et collections, 1683-1750.', Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailleshttp://journals.openedition.org/crcv/11542. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)