Defn: Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh. [Scot. &
Prov. Eng.]
AULD LANG SYNE
Auld` lang syne".
Defn: A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."
AULD LICHT; AULD LIGHT Auld licht, Auld light . (Eccl. Hist.) (a) A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century. (b) Same as Burgher, n., 2.
AULETIC
Au*let"ic, a. Etym: [L. auleticus, Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] Ash.
AULIC
Au"lic, a. Etym: [L. aulicus, Gr.
Defn: 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.
AULIC
Au"lic, n.
Defn: 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).