noun
- A native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire.
adjective
- Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it.
- usage: "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
- Of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium.
- Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
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