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Definition of Medieval mode

1. Noun. Any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600; derived historically from the Greek mode.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medieval Mode

Literary usage of Medieval mode

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Political Theories of the Middle Age by Otto Friedrich von Gierke, Frederic William Maitland (1900)
"Of necessity these would work a work of destruction upon the medieval mode of thought. As a matter of fact the old system began internally to dissolve. ..."

2. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"It will be remembered that in the last chapter, § 14., we supposed it probable that there would be considerable inaccuracies in the medieval mode of ..."

3. Studies in European History by Guernsey Jones (1900)
"Froissart to illustrate the medieval mode of warfare, notwithstanding the fact that he comes at the end of the Middle Ages, and the events he describes mark ..."

4. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by Association of American Law Schools, Mikell, William Ephraim, 1868-, Ernst Freund, John Henry Wigmore (1909)
"But this would have involved a weighing of ethical considerations altogether foreign to the medieval mode of thought. Practically there was no middle ground ..."

5. Lectures on Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays by James Barr Ames (1913)
"But this would have involved a weighing of ethical considerations altogether foreign to the medieval mode of thought. Practically there was no middle ground ..."

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