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Meaning of बासीलीक in English

  • 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.
  • of Basilica
  • A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
  • A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
  • A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

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