Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - byzantine
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Byzantine
byzantine
also Byzantine 1. Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire. ...Byzantine civilisation... There are also several well-preserved Byzantine frescoes. ADJ: ADJ n 2. If you describe a system or process as byzantine, you are criticizing it because it seems complicated or secretive. ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval BYZANTINE see byzantine
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I. adjective Date: 1651 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium 2. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of architecture developed in the ~ Empire especially in the fifth and sixth centuries featuring the dome carried on pendentives over a square and incrustation with marble veneering and with colored mosaics on grounds of gold 3. of or relating to the churches using a traditional Greek rite and subject to Eastern canon law 4. often not capitalized a. of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation a ~ power struggle b. intricately involved ; labyrinthine rules of ~ complexity II. noun Date: 1651 a native or inhabitant of Byzantium ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 of Byzantium or the E. Roman Empire. 2 (of a political situation etc.): a extremely complicated. b inflexible. c carried on by underhand methods. 3 Archit. & Painting of a highly decorated style developed in the Eastern Empire. --n. a citizen of Byzantium or the E. Roman Empire. Derivatives Byzantinism n. Byzantinist n. Etymology: F byzantin or L Byzantinus f. Byzantium, later Constantinople and now Istanbul ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ист. византиец 2. (b.) византийская золотая монета 3. византийский Byzantine style —- византийский стиль 4. напоминающий нравы Византии; коварный, предательский; интриганский Byzantine manoeuvering —- коварные маневры Byzantine politics —- политические интриги 5. запутанный, сложный Byzantine complexity —- путаница, неразбериха ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj formal complicated and difficult to understand (the byzantine complexity of our tax laws) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1599, from L. Byzantinus, originally used of art style; later in reference to the complex, devious, and intriguing character of the royal court on Constantinople. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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