out-Byzantine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ Byzantine

Verb[edit]

out-Byzantine (third-person singular simple present out-Byzantines, present participle out-Byzantining, simple past and past participle out-Byzantined)

  1. (transitive) To appear to be a more subtle negotiator than; to outsmart.
    • 2011, Theodore Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World, page 127:
      Although Ambassador Korry had admonished the president that “trying to out-Byzantine” the emperor “would be futile and counterproductive” and that Kennedy therefore should “spell out details of the U.S. program and justification from the start,” Washington tried to outsmart HIM […]
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