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Basilican

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or resembling a basilica.





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"Basilican" Quotes from Famous Books



... stolidity of the Swiss Chalet:[60] nor these only, but great part of the effect of our cathedrals, in which, necessarily, the close triforium and clerestory walls are superimposed on the nave piers; perhaps with most majesty where with greatest simplicity, as in the old basilican types, and the noble cathedral ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin
... with Leo I. in 461. The place selected is not the interior of the church, but the vestibule, and more exactly the space between the middle doorway (the Porta argentea) and the southwest corner, occupied by the secretarium, or sacristy, a hall of basilican shape in which the Popes donned their official robes before entering the church. The place can be easily identified by comparing the accompanying reproduction of Ciampini's drawing of the front of the ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani


Words linked to "Basilican" :   basilica


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