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How to pronounce byzantine in English?

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Synonyms convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
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Type of asian, asiatic
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Examples of byzantine

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Sorry, I was trying to avoid getting in the weeds of the byzantine pay structure.
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Florida's public taxing districts occupy a byzantine corner of Florida governance.
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I suggest the reader attempt to find out for themselves how byzantine the form is.
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Byzantine fresco of Joshua from the Hosios Loukas monastery, 12th to 13th century.
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Byzantine historians noted the liberal and generous nature of Ottoman Sultans.
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There are few transactions more byzantine than those at the pharmacy counter.
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Another treasure in Allen's heirloom collections is the white byzantine glad.
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It took him three weeks to figure out how to read SunGard's byzantine utility bills.
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The rest have all been reshuffled into other posts in the BBC's byzantine structure.
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  • A native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
  • Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
  • 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 ...
  • (byzantinism) Erastianism: the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters
  • The Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) was the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered around its capital of Constantinople, and ruled by emperors in direct succession to the ancient Roman emperors. ...
  • Byzantine is a heavy metal band from Charleston, West Virginia that formed in 2000. The band consisted of frontman and co-founder Chris "OJ" Ojeda (rhythm guitar, vocals), co- founder Tony Rohrbough (guitar), Matt Wolfe (drums) and Michael "Skip" Cromer (bass guitar, backing vocals). ...
  • Byzantinism or Byzantism is a term used in political science and philosophy to denote the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors, in particular, the Balkan states, the Ottoman Empire and Russia.Dimiter G. ...
  • A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul); Belonging to the civilization of the Eastern-Roman empire, between 331 A.D. ...
  • Alternative spelling of Byzantine