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Meaning of byzantine


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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 complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
         Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
         to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
         "convoluted reasoning"; "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: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved},
         {knotty}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]
      n 1: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine
           Empire


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