Definition of Byzantine
(Entry 1 of 2)
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
3 Christianity : of or relating to the churches using a traditional Greek rite and subject to Eastern (see eastern sense 2) canon law
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
Byzantine
nounDefinition of Byzantine (Entry 2 of 2)
: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium
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The first known use of Byzantine was in 1651
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