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US
/ˈbɪzənˌtaɪn, ˈbɪzənˌtin/
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[ UK /bɪzˈɑːntiːn/ ]
[ UK /bɪzˈɑːntiːn/ ]
NOUN
- a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
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of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
Byzantine rites
Byzantine monks -
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
convoluted reasoning
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
a knotty problem
got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
the plot was too involved
tortuous negotiations lasting for months
tortuous legal procedures
the Byzantine tax structure
convoluted legal language
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
How To Use Byzantine In A Sentence
- Plato's Academy was created around 390 B.C. and had remained in existence until the Byzantine emperor Justinian, closed its doors in 529.
- Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
- At that time the Byzantine Emperor employed Vikings in the elite Varangian Guard. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- Likewise, among Christians it has long been conventional to use uppercase Orthodox as a term distinguishing the Christianity that shared forms of liturgy and theology rooted in the Byzantine, or Greek-speaking, part of the Roman Empire from those who took a separate path in the West. Jewschool
- Spend six months wading through the Byzantine regulations and rules that radio stations must comply with to keep their licences.
- She had exquisite taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.
- Indeed, this is where the center of Jewish rabbinic authority came to rest after the Byzantine Empire shut down the Sanhedrin in 363 CE.
- The West, from Rome to Britain, was called into action; the kings of Poland and Bohemia obeyed the summons of Conrad; and it is affirmed by the Greeks and Latins, that, in the passage of a strait or river, the Byzantine agents, after a tale of nine hundred thousand, desisted from the endless and formidable computation. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The hotel is built on the ruins of a Byzantine chapel and you can get a tantalising glimpse of it through the glass floor of the lobby. The Sun
- To the early Christians and Byzantines, it was called the gammadion cross, and it figured prominently in their artwork.
