s as z. Anciently, a public hall or court of judicature, where princes and magistrates sat to administer justice. It was a large hall, with aisles, porticoes, tribunes, and tribunals. The bankers also had a part allotted for their residence. These edifices, at first, were the palaces of princes, afterwards courts of justice, and finally converted into churches. Hence basilic now signifies a church, chapel, cathedral, or royal palace.

The middle vein of the arm, or the interior branch of the axillary vein, so called by way of eminence.

Belonging to the middle vein of the arm.

Noting a particular nut, the walnut, basilica nux.