Definition of Byzantine
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium
- Byzantine art
2
architecture
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire especially in the fifth and sixth centuries featuring the dome carried on pendentives over a square and incrustation with marble veneering and with colored mosaics on grounds of gold
4
often not capitalized
a
: of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation
- a Byzantine power struggle
b
: intricately involved : labyrinthine
- rules of Byzantine complexity
