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med‧i‧e‧val W3 , mediaeval /ˌmediˈiːvəl◂ $ ˌmiː-/ adjective
[date : 1800-1900; Language : Modern Latin; Origin : medium aevum 'middle age']
1. connected with the Middle Ages (=the period between about 1100 and 1500 AD):
　 ▪ These spices were first brought to Italy from the East in medieval times.
　 ▪ a medieval castle

2. very old or old-fashioned – used in a humorous or disapproving way:
　 ▪ The plumbing in this house is positively medieval!

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
modern/classical/medieval etc architecture
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
early
▪ It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought.
NOUN
architecture
▪ The foundation of the Camden Society in 1839 had promoted much more careful study of medieval architecture.
▪ Meksi was by profession a construction engineer and former restorer of medieval architecture.
art
▪ Most of Gebrüder Mann's new publications are on medieval art however.
▪ Nicholas is a veritable treasury of relics and medieval art.
▪ If so, Parler's is the first self-portrait known in medieval art.
▪ In working life he is a Boeing 747 pilot and he also gave an in-depth demonstration on the blood curdling medieval art.
building
▪ Instead it looked to our medieval buildings, our castles and churches, and to the wilds of Westmorland.
▪ Whilst surveying land for new railways, he began measuring and drawing medieval buildings.
▪ The examples here were originally memorial slabs from a church existing on the site before the Norman and medieval buildings.
▪ All the medieval buildings were torn down and replaced by stone built ones, with red pantiled roofs.
▪ In the town centre, almost all the medieval buildings were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1675.
▪ Kitzbuhel is an ancient fortified town with fine medieval buildings.
castle
▪ This has opened the way for what has become the largest excavation of a medieval castle yet in Britain.
▪ History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle.
▪ On the third night, Sylvia was chosen to accompany a punter into the medieval castle.
▪ The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle.
▪ She entered the theme room, which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle.
▪ Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort.
▪ He had looked forward to living in a medieval castle and felt slightly cheated.
cathedral
▪ Along the waterways was carried most of the stone required to build our medieval cathedrals.
▪ The south-facing house is situated in one of the oldest streets in Ely and boasts superb views of the medieval cathedral.
▪ The capital of the region is Elgin with its ruined medieval cathedral.
▪ Easily Accessible: Ely is an ancient market town famous for its magnificent medieval cathedral and stained glass museum.
church
▪ In doing so, they continued the flexibility in intellectual speculation that had begun in certain quarters in the medieval Church.
▪ At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches.
▪ For example, the glass in the ancient windowpanes of medieval churches flows even though it is a solid.
▪ Villages are unspoilt, usually built around a medieval church with a stork's nest on top.
▪ There is also an instructive history in the condemnation and prohibition of books by the medieval church.
▪ Burton, which has the large medieval church, is a very small hamlet.
city
▪ Bucharest is not some medieval city surrounded by walls, says George Roman, head of Save the Children.
▪ So Doyle got the ferry back to the mainland and drove quickly to the attractive, still-recognisably medieval city of Winchester.
▪ These were the glittering and opulent reminders of the medieval city.
▪ It started with William standing alone in the middle of a street in a typical medieval city.
▪ The fine medieval city of Norwich, 17 miles away, has a cathedral, castle and market.
glass
▪ Excavations of other medieval glass furnaces have sometimes revealed a better degree of preservation.
▪ It was only in 1849 that the chemical formulae for medieval glass were rediscovered, and later published, by Charles Winston.
▪ Work has so far included research into early medieval glass beads which provides supporting evidence for the fragmentary work on vessel glass.
guild
▪ St. Martin's church and its medieval guild were responsible at some stage for providing the bull.
▪ What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather.
▪ As with medieval guilds, non-members could not officially practise their trade.
history
▪ They are two of the most colourful and exciting figures in the whole of medieval history.
▪ Until 1939 he continued to teach medieval history, giving tutorials that often lasted for a couple of hours.
▪ Although my subject is medieval history, we used to read and discuss all history from biblical times onward.
▪ But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life.
king
▪ The households of early medieval kings were simple affairs; the permanent staff was small.
▪ And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers.
▪ One of the chief functions of an early medieval king was the enforcement of justice.
literature
▪ His principal area of research is medieval literature.
▪ Be that as it may, it was here mat Lewis began to build up his encyclopaedic knowledge of late medieval literature.
▪ These stages, linked to the known planets, can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients.
manuscript
▪ Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.
▪ It comprises an extensive accumulation of medieval manuscripts, and a number of antiquarian collections.
▪ It was perfect, like the letter-high illuminations in a medieval manuscript.
▪ Similar techniques have been used on the fire-damaged medieval manuscripts of our Cotton collection.
period
▪ The first rooms here contain very fine collections of stove tiles from the medieval period and the Renaissance.
▪ For the medieval period there is more information.
▪ With the end of the medieval period, however, a gradual shift in viewpoint took place.
▪ Apart from the Roman remains, Avenches preserves interesting buildings from the medieval period.
▪ Initially the latter two metals only occur in alloys as they were not generally isolated in metallic form until the medieval period.
▪ Although some Roman keys do have a vertical bow, keys from the Saxon and medieval periods rarely employ a horizontal bow.
▪ Church architecture of the medieval period demonstrates a high level of awareness of the effect of form on consciousness.
society
▪ Their purpose was a practical one; medieval societies required professionals in those fields.
▪ Monastic worship shaped the religious feeling of early medieval society more than did any other single factor.
street
▪ Altogether a most attractive and unspoilt city, it has some pretty medieval streets, some of which are pedestrianised.
▪ Two minutes in its unplanned, crooked, medieval streets reveal that it is a more vibrant, cheerful and successful place.
times
▪ In medieval times, professional perfumers would concoct personal scents for their clients from six to eight special ingredients.
▪ Joseph Campbell once said that in medieval times, as you approached the city, your eye was taken by the cathedral.
▪ In medieval times, bringing corn to the mill was the responsibility of the customer.
▪ They wore black masks and held what were meant to look like large axes, from medieval times.
▪ It was the corruption of the Roman Catholic clergy in medieval times that paved the way for the Reformation.
▪ Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
▪ In medieval times this was raised to an art.
town
▪ Some, like Pesaro and Senigallia, have grown up around medieval towns and still retain old-world charm.
▪ I could have queried whether the castle was going to be part of an entire medieval town.
▪ All are within easy reach of Gubbio which is among the best restored medieval towns in Umbria.
▪ I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.
▪ The Hotel Girasole in Bormio 2000, high above the medieval town of Bormio, is the perfect destination for pre-teen skiers.
▪ The latter was probably always more important, for medieval towns such as Stamford and Grantham lay on its line.
▪ Nor is the road between, say, Salisbury and Winchester necessarily medieval just because it now links the two medieval towns.
▪ Nowhere is that symbiosis better expressed than in the medieval towns and villages.
village
▪ And nearby are the remains of a deserted medieval village.
▪ This is in the form of a full size reproduction of a medieval village, placed in extensive parkland.
▪ One surprise has been the lack of Saxon settlements beneath the medieval villages which have been excavated.
▪ Beyond the cathedral and the little churches, visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny, medieval village of Scala.
▪ The route then heads north to the medieval village of Wharram Percy before cutting east towards the coast at Filey Brigg.
▪ In Sussex there are known to be some 43 sites of deserted medieval villages.
▪ Cosmeston medieval Village A deserted medieval village gradually being uncovered by archaeologists.
wall
▪ Stretches of the medieval walls still stand.
world
▪ Unquestionably it was ancient Rome's greatest legacy to the medieval world, greater probably even than its literature and its poetry.
▪ The notion that the papacy should be above politics would have made no sense to the people of the medieval world.
▪ The whole of year 7 could be devoted to the medieval world but can not be.
▪ He really wanted to get back to a medieval world and he thought Buckingham should be a symbol of that world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ medieval art
▪ medieval Europe
▪ Civil rights groups complained that the law was "racist and medieval."
▪ The plumbing in this house is medieval!
▪ This so-called accounting system is positively medieval.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Feminist scholars popularized the writings of medieval mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen.
▪ In a medieval sense, the toilet yearns to keep itself full by means of this automatic plumbing.
▪ It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought.
▪ She parried with a weapon that turned out to be a medieval axe.
▪ The medieval judges served the Church and the king and were the instruments by which the people were dominated.
▪ The Renaissance destroys the medieval unity of vision.
▪ To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building.
▪ You can have a medieval gothic monstrosity in the middle of your otherwise pleasant townscape.