Byzantine English

Meaning Byzantine meaning

What does Byzantine mean?

Byzantine

— adjective (= convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous) 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

— adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

— adjective of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it Byzantine monks Byzantine rites

— noun a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

Synonyms Byzantine synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Byzantine?

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byzantine

tortuous

tangled

knotty

involved

convoluted

unutterable

unpronounceable

unfriendly

troublous

tough

sesquipedalian

serious

heavy

grievous

grave

difficult

challenging

bitter

awkward

arduous

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Byzantine

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How do I use Byzantine in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The Byzantine Greek monks Cyril and Methodius are credited with bringing the alphabet to Russia and laying the foundations of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The history of the Byzantine Empire spans 1058 years.

Movie subtitles

Sebastian my son, Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine.

Are you interested in the Byzantine, Dr.?

I don't know very much about the Byzantine.

From the colour, I'd say it belongs to the Byzantine period.

The deeper we go, the more Byzantine.

Byzantine masterpieces.

It is now a state museum, housing Byzantine treasures including the famous plates from Mount Athena.

There was Florentine, Byzantine, Hungarian and trapunto. I don't believe it.

The best Byzantine side.

Later, Byzantine artists gave him a beard because in Byzantium a beard was a symbol of power.

Now, if what you're saying is true. there should be out that window. a black Byzantine church with two-hundred-fifty-foot spires. with gold onions on the top.

Surely this was modeled after the great Byzantine steam house in Constantinople.

Byzantine.

Whoever designed this Byzantine piece of shit is probably chopping rocks in Siberia.

Are you interested in the Byzantine, Dr.? Cukrowicz.

The deeper we get, the more Byzantine it gets.

It is now a state muzeum, housing Byzantine treasures, including the famous plates from Mount Athena.

There was Florentine, Byzantine, Hungarian and trapunto.

And not one as byzantine as ones we've considered.

Good Lord. I've heard about politics making strange bedfellows. but this is the most arcane, byzantine bunch I've ever seen.

Oh, it's a Byzantine tale, Mildred, I assure you.

It sounds Byzantine!

Now, if what you're saying is true, there should be out that window a black Byzantine church with 250-foot spires with gold onions on the top.

The facts supported by a Byzantine plot, executed by someone inside the FBI, who, if named, could be tied to the hoax meant to destroy me. And to the terminal disease inflicted on Scully.

The Byzantine suitor's envoy and fan.

The appeals process is even more Byzantine than the trial it's appealing.

So, you can see the difference between this Tintoretto and the earlier Byzantine painting we looked at.

At the Byzantine, and I'll get your thing filled..

Welcome to the Byzantine.

Even Byzantine.

It's one of the most beautiful Byzantine churches in Eastern Europe.

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, up to the Byzantine Empire.

The Byzantine Empire had adopted Christianity at that time. but they never got that far south.

I was like the great jewelers of the Byzantine. sorting through full stacks of stones.

Constantine was pacifying the Byzantine priest by giving him a goddess to pray to.

Oh, it's the new Byzantine calendar!

The Arabs call it Byzantine fire.

News and current affairs

If we merely add new institutions to EU countries' already Byzantine arrangements, we will fail to address the effectiveness, flexibility, and smoothness of information transfer through the EU-level supervisory system.

Schemes aimed at strengthening policy coordination have merely added complexity to an already Byzantine architecture of procedures.

For too long Russia practiced either the diplomacy of the thug or that of the Byzantine.

But it is also possible that this former Chechen mufti doesn't grasp the Byzantine nature of Kremlin politics.

So both sides labor under complex conditions and in political contexts which make negotiations an almost Byzantine game.

Americans don't do this particularly well, however Byzantine their country's own politics and policy-making may seem.

The latest events clearly indicate that a czarist mentality survived the revolution, reflected in a Byzantine model of political power - an emperor and his court - that has as its main vehicle largely unconstrained presidential authority.

As in most cases, Byzantine ideological debates such as these lead nowhere, but they do crowd out meaningful policy discussions.

But the CBO, created in the 1970's precisely to bring greater transparency and accountability to the rather byzantine congressional budget process, really is independent and run by professionals.

He also gave the institution many privileges and authorities, no less than that which existed under the Byzantine emperors.

Unfortunately, however, words mean almost nothing in such a Byzantine country.

Consider what a change in leadership has done for the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis is transforming an institution that was thought to be so byzantine, opaque, and intractable that change was all but impossible.