Definition of "basilical" []

• Same as basilic.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As we detected last year, the area that required the most urgent interventions, was the West Portico of the Upper Agora, separating the public square from the Bouleuterion and the basilical church in its former courtyard."
• "Wandering round to the façade, finished in 1886, it is a careful imitation of fifteenth-century work we see, saved from the mere routine of just that, in its design at any rate, by the vote of the people, who, against the opinion of all the artists in Florence at that time, insisted on the cornice following the basilical form of the tower, refusing to endorse the pointed "tricuspidal" design."
• "Once of basilical form, it is now spoiled by the chapels that thrust themselves into the nave, but cannot altogether hide the nobility of those ancient pillars or the simplicity of the roof."