Byzantine

(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium .

(adj.) of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; 'Byzantine monks'; 'Byzantine rites' .

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• The Byzantine line corresponded to the southern dynasties. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Byzantine Empire was pushed out of Syria altogether. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The war between Persia and the Byzantine Empire was only formally concluded about the time of the beginning of Abu Bekr's rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This swift advance of the Turks into country that had been so long securely Byzantine must have seemed like the approach of final disaster. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Long before the European war, an inflammable and destructive compound was used in warfare, especially by the Byzantine Greeks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Yes—in Constantinople; a daughter of the old Byzantine nobles, a Fanariot beautiful as the dawn, who dwells at Phanar. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But in 810 a great disaster fell upon the Byzantine Empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So we give briefly the leading events in the history of the Persian as of the Byzantine Empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It led me towards a Byzantine building--a sort of kiosk near the park's centre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The Byzantine army had fought with its back to the river, which was presently choked with its dead. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He met the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who had apparently taken over the city from its Byzantine rulers, alone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This Eastern or Byzantine empire is generally spoken of as if it were a continuation of the Roman tradition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Byzantine found it more easy to negotiate with the Ottoman Pasha than with the Pope. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He laid siege to the Byzantine stronghold of Durazzo. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The successors of Constantine no longer reigned in Constantinople, and Ivan took possession of the Byzantine double-headed eagle for his arms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For years the Turks and Byzantines had intermarried, and hunted in couples in strange by-paths of diplomacy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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