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chrysobull

chrysobull noun: golden bull.

Noun

chrysobull (plural chrysobulls)

  1. golden bull
    • In this respect the 1082 chrysobull marks a turning point not only in Byzantino-Venetian relations but also in the imperial state machinery.2013, Judith Herrin, “The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy”, in Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire, Princeton, NJ...
    • Chrysobulls themselves were adorned with the imperial effigy in the early Palaiologan period. Three extant illuminated chrysobulls are associated with Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328), including one granting and extending the privileges of the Metropolitan of Monembasia in 1301.2020, A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, page 376

Forms of chrysobull

pluralchrysobulls

Origin of chrysobull

From chryso- + bull.

Questions about chrysobull

What does chrysobull mean?
Chrysobull means golden bull.
What part of speech is chrysobull?
Chrysobull is a noun.
What is the plural of chrysobull?
The plural of chrysobull is chrysobulls.

Words near chrysobull in the dictionary

  1. chryso-
  2. chrysobactin
  3. chrysobalanaceous
  4. chrysoberyl
  5. chrysoberyls
  6. chrysobull
  7. chrysobulls
  8. chrysocarpous
  9. chrysochalk
  10. chrysochlore
  11. chrysochlores

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