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Byzantine n. a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine a. of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
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Byzantine a. of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
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Byzantine s. [
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
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