"Basilica" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
The name given to a com-pilation of Roman and Greek law, prepared about A. D. 880 by the Emperor Basilius, and published by his successor, Leo the Phi-losopher. It was written in Greek, was mainly an abridgment of Justinian's Corpus Juris, and comprised sixty books, only a por
A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the
original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
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.
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.
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and …
Read the complete definitionA, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from …
Read the complete definitionApplied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which …
Read the complete definitionA native of Achaia; a Greek.
Read the complete definitionCombining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, …
Read the complete definitionThe combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
Read the complete definitionAn assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Read the complete definitionThe first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Read the complete definitionA collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly …
Read the complete definitionIn Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right …
Read the complete definitionA tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other …
Read the complete definitionThe Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
Read the complete definitionA prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a …
Read the complete definitionA deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the \"sun god\"), of archery, …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, …
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