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/mˈɛdɪˌiːvəl/
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[ US /miˈdivəɫ, mɪˈdivəɫ, mɪdˈjivəɫ/ ]
[ US /miˈdivəɫ, mɪˈdivəɫ, mɪdˈjivəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
a medieval attitude toward dating -
relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
Medieval times
Medieval scholars -
characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
the knightly years
chivalric rites
How To Use medieval In A Sentence
- So that model is alive and well and in the minds of many people, rather than the later medieval, misogynous legislation.
- Hazel wore a medieval-styled dress with a gold-braced bodice, gold chiffon sleeves and a gold train.
- It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
- I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary. Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
- Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
- The house is built on the site of a medieval prison.
- The shapes and engraved decorations of these pieces are typical of medieval Islamic glassware.
- The rebeck, to whose loud and harsh strains the medieval rustic had danced, [Footnote: The rebeck probably had been borrowed from the Mohammedans.] by the addition of a fourth string and A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
- Medieval parties to celebrate saints' days would often descend into chaos or a protest.
- The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
