connected with Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire 拜占庭帝国的；东罗马帝国的 used to describe architecture of the 5th to the 15th centuries in the Byzantine Empire, especially churches with high central domes and mosaics 拜占庭建筑风格的（尤指有高穹顶和马赛克装饰的教堂） - (also byzantine)(formal)
(of an idea, a system, etc. 思想、制度等 complicated, secret and difficult to change 复杂神秘而死板的 an organization of byzantine complexity 拜占庭式复杂诡秘死板的机构
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin Byzantinus, from Byzantium, the ancient Greek city founded in the 7th century BC, rebuilt by Constantine the Great in AD 324-30 as Constantinople.