Basilica :: Basilica (n.) 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..
Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached..
Basilica :: Basilica (n.) 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..
Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century..
Basilical :: Basilical (a.) Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm..
Basilican :: Basilican (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical..
Basilicon :: Basilicon (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance..
Bisilicate :: Bisilicate (n.) A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.
Borosilicate :: Borosilicate (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc..
Calcareo-siliceous :: Calcareo-siliceous (a.) Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths..
Cilice :: Cilice (n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.
Cilician :: Cilician (a.) Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
Cilician :: Cilician (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.
Cilicious :: Cilicious (a.) Made, or consisting, of hair..
Ekasilicon :: Ekasilicon (n.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor..
Exilic :: Exilic (a.) Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon..
Filical :: Filical (a.) Belonging to the Filices, r ferns..
Filicic :: Filicic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid..
Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..
Filiciform :: Filiciform (a.) Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
Filicoid :: Filicoid (a.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction..
Fluosilicate :: Fluosilicate (n.) A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride..