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Webster 1913 Edition

Basilic

Ba-sil′ic

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Noun.
[F.
basilique
.]
Basilica.

Webster 1828 Edition

Basilic

BAS'ILIC

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Noun.
s as z. [L. basilica; Gr. a king.]
Anciently, a public hall or court of judicature, where princes and magistrates sat to administer justice. It was a large hall, with aisles, porticoes, tribunes, and tribunals. The bankers also had a part allotted for their residence. These edifices, at first, were the palaces of princes, afterwards courts of justice, and finally converted into churches. Hence basilic now signifies a church, chapel,cathedral, or royal palace.

BAS'ILIC

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Noun.
[See Basil.] The middle vein of the arm, or the interior branch of the axillary vein, so called by way of eminence.

BAS'ILIC

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