Byzantine
[baɪ'zæntaɪn;'baɪzəntaɪn] or [baɪ'zæntaɪn;'baɪzənta
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Definition
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.
Typist: Nola
Examples
- The Byzantine line corresponded to the southern dynasties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Byzantine Empire was pushed out of Syria altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The war between Persia and the Byzantine Empire was only formally concluded about the time of the beginning of Abu Bekr's rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This swift advance of the Turks into country that had been so long securely Byzantine must have seemed like the approach of final disaster. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Long before the European war, an inflammable and destructive compound was used in warfare, especially by the Byzantine Greeks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Yes—in Constantinople; a daughter of the old Byzantine nobles, a Fanariot beautiful as the dawn, who dwells at Phanar. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But in 810 a great disaster fell upon the Byzantine Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So we give briefly the leading events in the history of the Persian as of the Byzantine Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It led me towards a Byzantine building--a sort of kiosk near the park's centre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Byzantine army had fought with its back to the river, which was presently choked with its dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He met the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who had apparently taken over the city from its Byzantine rulers, alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This Eastern or Byzantine empire is generally spoken of as if it were a continuation of the Roman tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Byzantine found it more easy to negotiate with the Ottoman Pasha than with the Pope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He laid siege to the Byzantine stronghold of Durazzo. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The successors of Constantine no longer reigned in Constantinople, and Ivan took possession of the Byzantine double-headed eagle for his arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For years the Turks and Byzantines had intermarried, and hunted in couples in strange by-paths of diplomacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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