Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - byzantine
Byzantine
byzantine
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
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I. adjective Date: 1651 of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium, 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, of or relating to the churches using a traditional Greek rite and subject to Eastern canon law, 4. often not capitalized of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation , intricately involved ; labyrinthine , II. noun Date: 1651 a native or inhabitant of Byzantium ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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