Lexic.us

Definition of Medieval

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"

3. Adjective. Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages. "The knightly years"

Definition of Medieval

1. Adjective. of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 (C.E.). ¹

2. Adjective. having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages. ¹

3. Adjective. archaic. ¹

4. Adjective. brutal. ¹

5. Noun. Someone living in the Middle Ages. ¹

6. Noun. A medieval one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Medieval

1. a person belonging to the Middle Ages [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medieval

medicochirurgical medicolegal medicolegally medicomechanical medicommissure medicommissures medicophysical medicopsychology medicornu medicornua

medicos medicotechnical medicotechnological medics mediety medieval (current term) medieval Schoolman medieval mode medievaldom medievalism

medievalisms medievalist medievalists medievality medievalize medievally medievals medifixed medifurca medigap

Literary usage of Medieval

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

1. An Introduction to the History of Christianity, A.D. 590-1314 by Frederick John Foakes-Jackson (1921)
"AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER I THE PILLARS OF THE medieval CHURCH Monasticism and the Papacy The Middle Ages are hard to define ..."

2. Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos (1920)
"EARLY THEORIES OF TRANSLATION i THE medieval PERIOD FROM the comment of Anglo-Saxon writers one may derive a not inadequate idea of the attitude generally ..."

3. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"... THE MYSTIC RELIGION OF THE PERSIAN POETS THE literature of medieval Persia includes some of the most celebrated poetry ever written. ..."

4. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"To appreciate these two earnest and strange and mystic labors of medieval thinkers, we must realize that from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by ..."

5. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"The fact of medieval exploration, colonization, and even evangelization in North America seems now to have emerged from the region of fanciful conjecture ..."

6. England's Industrial Development by Arthur Donald Innes (1912)
"CHAPTER I THE medieval PERIOD THE industrial and commercial history of England ... Broadly speaking, our three periods are: the medieval or insular era, ..."

Other Resources: