Basilica is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASILICA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an ancient Roman building
• a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a law court or for public assemblies.
• a building similar to a Roman basilica, used as a Christian church.
• the name given to certain churches granted special privileges by the Pope.
• rectangular church with a rounded end and two aisles
• Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
• A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
• A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
• A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
• an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges
• a Roman building used for public administration

Words related to BASILICA

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Words that contain BASILICA

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How to use BASILICA in a sentence

• The architects of the Romanesque, who were probably churchmen, retained the nave of the basilica, but made it narrower, and used but two rows of columns.
• Arrived at the basilica of San Frediano, the procession halts under the Byzantine mosaic on a gold ground, over the entrance.
• Some of them had been rescued, as he was hurrying them off to prison, and had taken refuge with their followers in the Basilica of St.
• The catacombs proper, to which entrance may be had from the Basilica of St.
• Queen Clotilde had the corpses of the two children placed in a coffin, and followed them, with a great parade of chanting, and immense mourning, to the basilica of St.
• At sight of the cross Charlemagne dismounted, entered Rome on foot, ascended the steps of the ancient basilica of St.
• But he was poisoned, by whom or for what motive is not clearly known, at Nicaea, in Bithynia, where he was buried in the basilica of St.
• The new temple, destined to supersede the old basilica, embodied an aspect of Latin Christianity which had very little indeed in common with the piety of the primitive Church.
• She had forgotten the catacombs and ruthlessly destroyed the Basilica of Constantine.
• Plate 4 is specially interesting, since it represents in one view the old basilica and the design of Bramante, together with those of Antonio di S.
• One of the most remarkable buildings now in the course of erection is the Basilica, or Church of St.
• This court was erected on the site of the Basilica Fulvia, and superseded by a more splendid building called the Basilica Pauli, which was the Bourse or Exchange of ancient Rome.
• The Basilica is not yet entirely excavated, a large part of its breadth being still under modern buildings.
• Laurence, immediately underneath the high altar of the great Basilica of San Lorenzo beyond the Gate.
• They are ancient, and belonged to some temple or basilica of the Forum.
• The building of this last Basilica was interrupted for a long time by the disorders consequent on the assassination of Caesar.
• The existing cathedral, its later representative, is still an early and very simple Tuscan basilica, with picturesque crypt and raised choir, of a very plain Romanesque type.
• With reason too, for this basilica is so old as to make many Venetian churches mere mushrooms, and even S.
• If it has proved difficult to protect from airplane fire the massive basilica of St.
• The Callevan Forum seems in general simpler than others, but its basilica is remarkably large.
• WINDOW IN THE FACADE OF THE BASILICA AT ALTAMURA, ITALY.
• After the rebuilding of the Basilica, Justinian introduced silk-culture into Greece.
• The remains of an external mosaic of the 6th century exist on the west facade of the basilica at Parenzo.
• The Coptic cathedral, dedicated to St Mark, is a modern building in the basilica style.
• I go all through Paradise without ever meeting a single one of those Christians whom formerly I admitted to the holy table in the basilica of the blessed Modestus.
• The very stone lamps still stand in the rooms at Hagia Triada, and on the stairs of the Basilica at Knossos, as they stood to lighten the last night of the doomed Minoans.
• The great clock of the Basilica was striking ten with a solemn boom as the carriage rattled over the stones of the Piazza of St.
• A fragment, apparently that of a Roman temple or basilica, near the church of St.
• All Rome knew what was about to be accomplished and had gathered in the ancient basilica to await it and complete it.
• The magnificent basilica, one of the most splendid in Italy, was sacked by the French in April 1512, but, as Dr.
• John Angeloptes died and was buried in the basilica of S.
• One comes to this great basilica always I think as to a ruin, to find without surprise the doors closed and only to be opened after long knocking.
• The structures in which they themselves excelled were the amphitheatre, the public baths, the triumphal arch, the basilica, the bridge, and the aqueduct.
• It has been shown that an open space existed in front of the basilica, and that in it there is at least one basis for a statue.

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