byzantine
adjective
1. of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
- Byzantine monks
- Byzantine rites
2. of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
3. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- the Byzantine tax structure
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
Similar word(s): complex, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous