noun
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Someone living in the Middle Ages.
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A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
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Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.
adjective
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Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
Examples of mediaeval in a Sentence
There is evidence that, towards the close of the mediaeval period, great storms and tidal inundations occurred on the shores of the North Sea and Baltic, and in the course of these floods, culminating in 1297, the Zuider Zee was formed from a lake that existed in its neighbourhood, by the breaking down of dykes.
He has produced various works on mediaeval church history and liturgies, among them being Henry VIII.
Some of his statutory lectures are published in his Lectures on Mediaeval and Modern History.
See Count Liitzow, Prague, in " Mediaeval Towns" Series (London, 1902); Tomek, Dejepis Mesta Pralay (History of the town of Prague), the standard work on Prague, which the author only continued up to the year 1608.
See Neubauer, Mediaeval Jewish Chronicles, ii.
Many economic changes probably occurred in consequence of the variations in tide-generating force, as, for instance, the decline in the mediaeval Baltic herring fisheries controlled by the Hanseatic League.
Poole's Illustrations of the History of Mediaeval Thought (1884), while much light is thrown upon the minuter history of the period by the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis edited by Denifle and Chatelain in 1894, by Haureau's Notices et extraits de quelques MS. latins de la Bibliotheque Nationale (6 vols., 1890-1895) and by the Beitrage zur Geschichte d.