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The council of the Kaiser in the old German Empire, from which there was no appeal (1495–1806) (Latin, aula, a court). The name is now given in Austria to a council of Vienna which manages the war department of the Austrian Empire.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.