adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 connected with Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire
2 used to describe architecture of the 5th to the 15th centuries in the Byzantine Empire, especially churches with high central DOMES and MOSAICS
3 (also byzantine) (formal) (of an idea, a system, etc.) complicated, secret and difficult to change:
an organization of byzantine complexity
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