1. A native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

1. Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
   "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites" 
2. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
   "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
   - convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous 
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

Derived forms: Byzantines

See also: Byzantine Empire, complex, Eastern Orthodox Church

Type of: Asian, Asiatic

Part of: Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire

Encyclopedia: Byzantine

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