BYZANTINE

I. adjective Date: 1651 of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium, of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of architecture developed in the ~ Empire especially in the fifth and sixth centuries featuring the dome carried on pendentives over a square and incrustation with marble veneering and with colored mosaics on grounds of gold, of or relating to the churches using a traditional Greek rite and subject to Eastern canon law, 4. often not capitalized of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation , intricately involved ; labyrinthine , II. noun Date: 1651 a native or inhabitant of Byzantium