Definition of "logothete" [log•o•thete]

• Any of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire. (noun)

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• "Nicephorus, the general logothete (i.e., the imperial treasurer), became emperor, and the prospect of union was dead."
• "The logothete abjured the schism in the name of the emperor Michael Palæologus; and the pope, while Te Deum was sung, stood with his cheeks all the time bathed in tears."
• "By his direction, a collection of historical examples of vice and virtue was compiled in fifty-three books, and _Simeon Metaphrastes_, the great logothete, or chancellor of the empire, composed his Lives of the"