a. [ad. L. Constantīnopolītān-us, f. Constantīnopolis = Gr. Κωνσταντίνου πόλις the City of Constantine, formerly called Byzantium.] Of or pertaining to Constantinople, or to the Eastern Empire or Church; Byzantine.
c. 1568. Fulke, Answ. Chr. Protestant (1577), 97. The Constantinopolitane [Councell].
1676. Marvell, Mr. Smirke, 25. The Constantinopolitan Creed.
1881. Stanley, Chr. Instit., xiv. (ed. 2), 266. Another Creed much resembling [the Nicene] … was said to have been made at the Constantinopolitan Council.
1886. Academy, 31 July, 68/2. Any gold circulating in South Italy in the eleventh century would certainly have been Constantinopolitan.
