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basilica
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Word definitions for basilica in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basilica \Ba*sil"i*ca\, n. A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. --P. Cyc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Latin basilica "building of a court of justice," and, by extension, church built on the plan of one, from Greek (stoa) basilike "royal (portal)," the portico of the archon basileus, the official who dispensed justice in Athens, from basileus ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek βασιλικὴ στοά , lit. "royal stoa ", serving as the tribunal chamber of a king) has three distinct applications in modern English. The word was originally used to describe an ancient Roman public building where ...
Usage examples of basilica.
May the Oversoul forgive me for saying so, but if Nafai killed him then maybe he did a good thing, for Basilica at least.
Oversoul had begun all these problems by giving Volemak his vision of Basilica on fire.
Now she was Hushidh the Raveler, discussing the city of Basilica, not Shuya the schoolgirl, telling an ugly story about her tormentors.
And above all the caravanners from Basilica, with their strange songs and seeds, images in glass and cunning tools, impossible fabrics that changed colors with the hours of the day, and their poems and stories that taught the Sotchitsiya how wise and refined men and women spoke and thought and dreamed and lived.
Gaballufix who was in favor of Basilica forming an alliance with Potokgavan and leading the Cities of the Plain in war against us.
Perhaps you have a plan in mind, some way that you can help your city, some stratagem whereby you can ease the fears of the women of Basilica and keep them safe from the chaos that threatens them.
Knowing that Vozmuzhalnoy Vozmozhno would watch their fleet arrive and have plenty of time to bring his men down from Basilica and slaughter their army as it tried to land, Potokgavan would not dare to send an expeditionary force to the Cities of the Plain.
The walls of Basilica are high and thick, and chariots are useless in that terrain.
Basilica, where again I will not attack anybody, but will rather enter the city of Basilica to restore order in the name of the Imperator.
Moozh was taking a thousand fierce soldiers with him on a forced march through the mountains, to take the city of Basilica and destroy the party of Gaballufix, a group of men so daring and treacherous that they had dared to send an assassin against the general of the Gorayni.
The Oversoul said that Basilica would be destroyed, that the world of Harmony was going to collapse in war and terror.
Father lectured Meb on the impossibility of returning to Basilica any time soon.
In Basilica, where women had their pick of men, it would be one piss-poor specimen of womanhood who would choose a cripple like Issib for a mate.
He could wait a long cold time for the Oversoul to persuade anybody but Father to do something as idiotic as leaving Basilica for the desert.
Wetchik, who had his inflammatory vision about Basilica in flames, and then her former husband, Gaballufix, who put tolchoks and then mercenary soldiers on the streets of the city.