Similar words: quarantine, elephantine, wanting, panting, ranting, sentinel, planting, chanting. Meaning: [bɪ'zntaɪn /-'zæn-] n. a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire. adj. 1. of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it 2. of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium 3. highly complex or intricate 4. characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious.
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(31) The fine Byzantine church was considerably restored in the nineteenth century, but retains its original character.
(32) The circlet is enriched by enamel plaques of Byzantine manufacture, alternating on the lower register with jewels en cabochon.
(33) Traditionally Byzantine in the building materials and plan, it is more eastern in the decoration and treatment.
(34) The fate of glagolitic became involved with the ecclesiastical politics of Dalmatia, where Byzantine and Latin religious influences overlapped.
(35) The architectural style of the region was derived partly from Kiev but was also influenced by Novgorod and by Western Byzantine culture.
(36) The most typical Byzantine form is the basket or cubical capital.
(37) The Byzantine contribution was the pendentive and this is not only a more satisfactory solution but will support large domes.
(38) Classics, Ancient History, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
(39) The images were Gothic or Byzantine rather than classical.
(40) an organization of byzantine complexity.
(41) Venice was destroyed by fire and rebirth of the Phoenix Opera House[sentencedict.com/byzantine.html], the charming Byzantine architecture and the world's most beautiful Plaza - Piazza San Marco.
(42) The Fire Ship is a Byzantine Dromon modified to carry a medieval version of the flame thrower used to spew out Greek Fire at unfortunate does.
(43) The son of Alexius I Comnenus, he made it his mission to reconquer Byzantine territory lost to the Arabs, Turks, and crusaders.
(44) To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever.
(45) The papal nuncio called on Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, to refute the Byzantine emperor's argument.
(46) The chief sources for the Greek mathematical works are Byzantine Greek codices.
(47) Evidently Byzantine Greek borrowed the word specifically as it applied to those faces on coins.
(48) The Eastern Roman Empire, called the Byzantine Empire, controls Greece.
(49) The Byzantine church was thus able to make fabrics for the emperor, with the intention of developing a large silk industry in the Eastern Roman Empire, using techniques learned from the Sassanids.
(50) It was invaded by Muslims in 650 and Byzantine was forced out.
(51) OM:But by the gods, that was such an unnecessarily byzantine process that it drove more men mad than I could spit at.
(52) Viewed from treaty of postwar, Byzantine and Rus is equal.
(53) Byzantine Chant is an indispensable part in the history of western music. It has been regarded as the interim of the ancient heritage and western church music.
(54) Aramaic is still spoken here and we walked through a cleft in the rockface from the Convent of St Theda, where mass was in full swing, to the Monastery of St Sergius and its tiny Byzantine church.
(55) The accord will require that a traveler produce documentation for import into the United States of artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic through Late Byzantine periods.
(56) During her marriage to Louis, she participated in the Second Crusade in 1147 and even traveled with her husband to the Byzantine Empire.
(57) In Byzantine and Byzantinizing art, the tendency toward planimetrical schematization went so far that even heads turned to three-quarter profile were constructed in analogous manner.
(58) Empress Theodora was one of the most influential and powerful women in the Early Middle Ages. She was the wife of Emperor Justinian I and joint ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
(59) The Byzantine church provided another important aspect of contemporary social life.
(60) Thus the coming of Islam may be seen as a providential occurrence that allowed the Jews to slip between the cracks Islam made in Byzantine Church persecution.
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