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Byzantine


I - noun
a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
Hypernyms:
Asian, Asiatic
Member Holonyms:
Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire

II - adjective
1. of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
- Byzantine monks
- Byzantine rites
Pertains to noun:
Eastern Orthodox Church
2. of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
Pertains to noun:
Byzantine Empire
3. 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
Syn:
convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
Similar to:
complex
Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness (for: knotty)

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