a. [ad. med.L. basilicān-us, f. basilica: see prec. and -AN.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a basilica. Basilicanism, adherence to the basilican type of church.
1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav., II. I. 228. It is built in the basilican manner.
1879. Baring-Gould, Germany, II. 345. But the basilican churches were not always adaptations of this sort.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., vi. 179. In very many Italian monastic churches … basilicanism has as it were been caricatured.
