Byzantine

[baɪ'zæntaɪn;'baɪzəntaɪn] or [baɪ'zæntaɪn;'baɪzənta

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium .

(adj.) of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; 'Byzantine monks'; 'Byzantine rites' .

編輯:露西尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.

(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.

校對:卡特里娜

解釋/意思:

adj. relating to Byzantium or Constantinople.—n. an inhabitant thereof.—n. Byzan′tinism the manifestation of Byzantine characteristics.—Byzantine architecture the style prevalent in the Eastern Empire down to 1453 marked by the round arch springing from columns or piers the dome supported upon pendentives capitals elaborately sculptured mosaic or other incrustations &c.; Byzantine Church the Eastern or Greek Church; Byzantine Empire the Eastern or Greek Empire from 395 A.D. to 1453; Byzantine historians the series of Greek chroniclers of the affairs of the Byzantine Empire down to its fall in 1453.

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