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Meaning of 'Byzantine'
Meaning of 'Byzantine' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Byzantine 
[ a.]
- Of or pertaining to Byzantium. [ a.]2. Byzantine [ n.]
- A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium.
See Bezant. [ n.]- A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.
Meaning of 'Byzantine' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. byzantine [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
Example in sentence:
- Byzantine monks;
- Byzantine rites
2. byzantine [ s]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Example in sentence:
- a knotty problem;
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship;
- convoluted legal language;
- convoluted reasoning;
- got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering;
- Oh, what a tangled web we weave;
- the Byzantine tax structure;
- the plot was too involved;
- tortuous legal procedures;
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
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