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Definition of Mediaeval

1. Adjective. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages. "Medieval times"

2. Adjective. As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened. "A medieval attitude toward dating"

Definition of Mediaeval

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of medieval) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mediaeval

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediaeval

media player media players media studies media wasp mediacentric mediacies mediacracies mediacracy mediacrat mediacrats

mediacy mediad mediae mediaeval (current term) mediaevaldom mediaevalism mediaevalisms mediaevalist mediaevalists mediaevally

mediaevals mediagenic medial medial accessory olivary nucleus medial angle of eye medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve medial anterior thoracic nerve medial aperture of the fourth ventricle

Literary usage of Mediaeval

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

1. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"Between the twelfth and the fourteenth century mediaeval art culminates in styles organic in their growth, and novel and original. This art, being no copy, ..."

2. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"... on which the mediaeval Empire rested any- Empire. thing in common. ... called mediaeval imperialism, a theory of the nature \ of the state and the best ..."

3. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"Between the twelfth and the fourteenth century mediaeval art culminates in styles organic in their growth, and novel and original. This art, being no copy, ..."

4. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance by Joel Elias Spingarn (1899)
"I. mediaeval Conceptions of Poetry The mediaeval distrust of literature was the ... The mediaeval Church from its earliest stages had regarded pagan culture ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"'The Cambridge mediaeval History*; Cross, AL, (A History of England and Greater Britain> (Chaps. I-XVII); Cunningham, W., 'Western Civilization in its ..."

6. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1903)
"We have already had abundant proofs that the mediaeval ways in Church was very ... The mediaeval Church did not rely for its support, The wealth as churches ..."

7. The Bookman (1903)
"In 1860 Mr. Reade produced a mediaeval novel with an idea-ed title, The Cloister and the Hearth. His faithful imitator soon followed suit with a ..."

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