Definition of Basilical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Basilical

1. 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. 2. Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. See: Basilica. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basilical

basilary
basilateral
basilean
basilect
basilectal
basilectally
basilects
basileiolatry
basileolatry
basileus
basilic
basilic vein
basilica
basilicae
basilical (current term)
basilican
basilicas
basilicok
basilicon
basilicons
basilicus
basiliomata
basilisc
basiliscs
basiliscusfibrase
basilisk
basilisks
basiliximab
basilolatry

Literary usage of Basilical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"At S. Germano (Monte Cassino) the plain columnar basilical type is represented by S. ... Another combination of the basilical and Byzantine schemes appears, ..."

2. History of Mediaeval Art by Franz von Reber (1887)
"The basilical system was retained for centuries, with but slight alterations, in Algiers, in the Cyrenaica, in Egypt, and in Asia Minor. ..."

3. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1889)
"... characteristic leads to the belief that it presented in that earliest period of our Christianity the peculiar features of the basilical churches, viz., ..."

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