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dromic, a.|ˈdrɒmɪk|
[ad. Gr. δροµικός, f. δρόµος course, race-course.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the form of a race-course; applied to the basilican type of Eastern churches from its resemblance to the plan of a race-course. So also ˈdromical.
1850Neale East. Ch. i. ii. i. 170 There are many [Eastern churches] of the kind called dromic, or basilican, which exhibit the early Western arrangement. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 418/2 The basilican form, or, as it was then termed, dromical, from its shape being that of a race-course. 1890Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 770 Such megalithic edifices as the dromic vaults of Maes How and New Grange. |