- (Archaic) A native of Byzantium which was in the same place as is now Istanbul
- (Historic) What belongs to the civilization of the East-Roman empire, as it was established after 331 A.D. when the capital was moved to Konstantinoupolis (now Istanbul) and up to 1453 when it was conquerd by the Turks.
- Complex or intricate
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to Byzantium
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
<jargon, architecture> A term describing any system that has
so many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it would
be impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupled
or linked components.
The city of Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and then
Istanbul, and the Byzantine Empire were vitiated by a
bureaucratic overelaboration bordering on lunacy: quadruple
banked agencies, dozens or even scores of superfluous levels
and officials with high flown titles unrelated to their actual
function, if any.
Access to the Emperor and his council was controlled by
powerful and inscrutable eunuchs and by rival sports factions.
[Edward Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"].
(1999-01-15)
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
{ Byz"ant (&?;), Byz"an*tine (-ăn"tīn)
n. } [OE. besant, besaunt, F.
besant, fr. LL. Byzantius, Byzantinus, fr.
Byzantium.] (Numis.) A gold coin, so called from being
coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
By*zan"tine (b&ibreve;*zăn"t&ibreve;n),
a. Of or pertaining to Byzantium. --
n. A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now
Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of
Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.]
Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as
distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church. See under
Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern
Roman or Greek empire from a. d. 364 or a. d. 395 to the
capture of Constantinople by the Turks, a. d. 1453. --
Byzantine historians, historians and writers
(Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P.
Cyc. -- Byzantine style (Arch.), a style
of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire. Its leading forms
are the round arch, the dome, the pillar, the circle, and the cross. The
capitals of the pillars are of endless variety, and full of invention. The
mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, and the church of St. Mark, Venice,
are prominent examples of Byzantine architecture.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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