- 1connected with Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire
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- 2used to describe architecture of the 5th to the 15th centuries in the Byzantine Empire, especially churches with high central domes and mosaics
- 3byzantine (formal) (of an idea, a system, etc.) complicated, secret, and difficult to change an organization of byzantine complexity
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