Byzantine - Definition

adj 1: of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the
rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine
rites"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire
or the ancient city of Byzantium
3: 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" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved,
knotty, tangled, tortuous]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine
Empire