[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

byzant \byz"ant\, byzantine \byz"antine\ -a^n"timacn
   n.oe. besant, besaunt, f. besant, fr. ll. byzantius,
   byzantinus, fr. byzantium. numis.
   a gold coin, so called from being coined at byzantium. see
   bezant.
   1913 webster
see also:
bezant 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

byzantine \byzan"tine\ bi^za^n"ti^n, a.
   of or pertaining to byzantium. -- n. a native or inhabitant
   of byzantium, now constantinople; sometimes, applied to an
   inhabitant of the modern city of constantinople. written
   also bizantine.
   1913 webster

   byzantine church, the eastern or greek church, as
      distinguished from the western or roman or latin church.
      see under greek.

   byzantine empire, the eastern roman or greek empire from a.
      d. 364 or a. d. 395 to the capture of constantinople by
      the turks, a. d. 1453.

   byzantine historians, historians and writers zonaras,
      procopius, etc. who lived in the byzantine empire. --p.
      cyc.

   byzantine style arch., a style of architecture developed
      in the byzantine empire.

   note: its leading forms are the round arch, the dome, the
         pillar, the circle, and the cross. the capitals of the
         pillars are of endless variety, and full of invention.
         the mosque of st. sophia, constantinople, and the
         church of st. mark, venice, are prominent examples of
         byzantine architecture.
         1913 webster
see also:
bizantine byzantine church greek byzantine empire byzantine historians byzantine style 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

byzantine
     adj 1: of or relating to the eastern orthodox church or the rites
            performed in it; "byzantine monks"; "byzantine rites"
     2: of or relating to or characteristic of the byzantine empire
        or the ancient city of byzantium
     3: highly involved or intricate; "the byzantine tax structure";
        "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning";
        "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined
        phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty
        problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "oh,
        what a tangled web we weave"- sir walter scott; "tortuous
        legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for
        months" syn: convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty,
         labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous
     4: characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious;
        "byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "a
        fine hand for byzantine deals and cozy arrangements"
     n : a native or inhabitant of byzantium or of the byzantine
         empire
see also:
convoluted intricate involved knotty labyrinthine tangled 
tortuous 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "byzantine":
   machiavellian, artful, balled up, calculating, canny, collusive,
   complex, complicated, confounded, confused, connivent, conniving,
   conspiring, contriving, convoluted, crabbed, crafty, cunning,
   daedal, designing, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled,
   fouled up, foxy, gordian, guileful, implicated, insidious,
   intricate, intriguing, involuted, involved, knotted, knotty,
   knowing, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted,
   matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up,
   multifarious, pawky, perplexed, plotting, ramified, roundabout,
   scheming, screwed up, shrewd, slick, sly, snarled, sophisticated,
   stratagemical, subtile, subtle, tangled, tangly, twisted, up to,
   wily

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

byzantine
     
         a term describing any system that has
        so many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it would
        be impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupled
        or linked components.
     
        the city of byzantium, later renamed constantinople and then
        istanbul, and the byzantine empire were vitiated by a
        bureaucratic overelaboration bordering on lunacy: quadruple
        banked agencies, dozens or even scores of superfluous levels
        and officials with high flown titles unrelated to their actual
        function, if any.
     
        access to the emperor and his council was controlled by
        powerful and inscrutable eunuchs and by rival sports factions.
     
        edward gibbon, "decline and fall of the roman empire".
     
        1999-01-15
     
     

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