salic

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Adjective

HYPHEN

sal=ic

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CIDE DICTIONARY

salic, a. [F. salique, fr. the Salian Franks, who, in the fifth century, formed a body of laws called in Latin leges Salicæ.].

Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called. [1913 Webster]

Salic law. (a) A code of laws formed by the Salian Franks in the fifth century. By one provision of this code women were excluded from the inheritance of landed property. (b) Specifically, in modern times, a law supposed to be a special application of the above-mentioned provision, in accordance with which males alone can inherit the throne. This law has obtained in France, and at times in other countries of Europe, as Spain.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

salic, adj. = SALIAN.

Idiom

Salic law hist.
1 a law excluding females from dynastic succession, esp. as the alleged fundamental law of the French monarchy.
2 a Frankish law-book extant in Merovingian and Carolingian times.

Etymology

F Salique or med.L Salicus f. Salii (as SALIAN)