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Definition of Basilicas
1. basilica [n] - See also: basilica
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basilicas
Literary usage of Basilicas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1885)
"basilicas may be subdivided into two classes — that in which the nave is divided
from the side-aisles by pillars, ..."
2. A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs by John Murray (Firm) (1875)
"basilicas. There are 5 great basilicas, and 8 lesser ones, ... The five principal
basilicas we shall describe first, as constituting the most important ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The triumphant symbols of the basilicas, and the historical scenes depicted ...
basilicas.—According to the Acts of the Apostles the first Christians were ..."
4. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"Certain exceptional peculiarities in the planning of basilicas remain to ...
DUAL CATHEDRALS It was the custom in Lombardy to erect two distinct basilicas ..."
5. A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States by Octavian Blewitt (1850)
"basilicas; St. Peter's. nius and his two successors, as librarians of the ...
The Roman basilicas have undergone numerous additions and alterations in ..."
6. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1858)
"JH Pollen, on the Structural Characteristics of the basilicas. ... Beginning with
a notice of the secular uses of the ancient basilicas, Mr. Pollen proposes ..."
7. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1905)
"OF the three large five-aisled basilicas built or founded by Five- Constantine
in Eome, the largest, S. Peter's, was pulled down when the present great ..."
8. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1886)
"ANCIENT basilicas. Courts of justice in Rome were held in basilicas, and the
edifices thus named were subsequently used as Christian churches. ..."
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