[f. Gr. βασιλικ-ός + -AL 1.]
1. Kingly, royal, regal.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 277. Basilical rule or any other temporal soveraignty.
1885. T. Kerslake, Liberty Hist. Research, 5. Up wells this basilical word ‘must.’
† 2. = BASILIC a. 2. Obs.
1649. Howell, Lett. (1650), III. 40. How England will thrive now that she is let bloud in the basilicall veine.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 290. Upon squeesing her Arm he forced thence from about the Basilical vein … a pins point.
