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adj. Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly

n. A ceremony at some European universities to confer a doctor of divinity degree

adj. Pertaining to a royal court.

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).

Pertaining to a royal court.

[⟨ aula, 2.] In anatomy, of or pertaining to the aula. Wilder.

n. 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 agency said it issued a subpoena because Halliburton failed to turn over information necessary to move forward with a congressionally requested study of hydr aulic fracturing, or " fracking, " in which large amounts of water laden with sand and chemicals are pumped deep underground to release natural gas trapped inside rock."