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basilic
Word definitions for basilic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basilic \Ba*sil"ic\, Basilical \Ba*sil"ic*al\, a. [See Basilica .] Royal; kingly; also, basilican. (Anat.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 royal; kingly 2 basilican 3 (context anatomy English) Relating to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, such as the basilic vein. n. A basilica.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Basilic can refer to: Basilic (cannon) Basilic vein French for basilisk
Usage examples of basilic.
Stern went to Sir Luis Basilic of the old stockbroking firm of Basilio and Sons, who had a great block of Struan's personally, as well as many substantial clients with more.
Thus aided, the doctor and his friends were enabled to embark almost immediately on the small steamer called the Basilic, which ran down to the mouth of the river.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast's loss of blood.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast’s loss of blood.
The sixty books of the Basilics, ^5 the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
Besides the Basilics, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence.
The sixty books of the Basilics, ^5 the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
Besides the Basilics, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence.
Exceedingly painful, and with luck it might have nicked the basilic vein, adding to Pendergast’.
He feels it surging up his median basilic vein, through biceps and into torso, and almost at once an intolerable fluttering arises within his heart, the busy twitching-pecking-fluffing of something making a nest.