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Definition of St. Basil
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Church Father, Father, Father Of The Church, Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Basil
Literary usage of St. Basil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Sketches by John Henry Newman (1899)
"Caesarius dies, and St. Basil assists St. Gregory in securing his ... 143 ; St.
Basil falls ill, p. 14 ; proposes to send St. Gregory of Nyssa to Rome, p. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... of Origen besides those already named: some treatises of St. Basil and of
Gregory of ... these must be sought in the works of Origen, St. Basil etc. ..."
3. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler (1866)
"St. Basil, the Great, the illustrious doctor and intrepid champion of the Church,
... The eldest among the boys was St. Basil: the other three were ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"Letters and Select Works of St. Basil. Translated Vicar of St. Bartholomew's,
Moor Lane, and Fellow of with prolegomena, &c., by Blomfield Jackson, MA, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Some question has arisen as to the relative claims of these liturgies of St.
Basil and St. Mark to be the primitive liturgy of the Egyptian church. ..."
6. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"St. Basil AND ST. GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS in Cappadocia: their friendship, their
monastic life, their part in the Church. — Violent opposition against the ..."
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