mediæval

adjective

Dated spelling of medieval.

Meanings

adjectivemediæval (comparative more mediæval, superlative most mediæval)

comparative more mediæval · superlative most mediæval

  1. Dated spelling of medieval.

    Love the almost mediæval, North Sea Radio Orchestra feel, as well.

    2021 October 3, Michael Baryshnikov, “Ske”, in fido7.ru.bee.music (Usenet)
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    In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen.

    1993, Magdalen Nabb, chapter 10, in The Marshal at the Villa Torrini, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 176

    This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.

    2006, Noel Cox, “Dark Age and Mediæval Europe”, in Technology and Legal Systems, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part II (The Relationship of Government and Technology), section 6 (Changes in the Past), page 132

    Fields Covered: […] Transcription with Translation of Mediæval French & Latin; […]

    2011 February 28, eXpertGenealogy, “UK Genealogy Service specialising in the Late Mediæval, Tudor & Stuart periods”, in soc.genealogy.marketplace (Usenet)

    But we have now moved a long way from mediæval genealogy – though perhaps no further than the deluded fictions which started this thread.

    2019 September 26, Richard Smith, “Ancestral memories: Cecil/Davis with Manners, Courtenay and King Edward VI”, in soc.genealogy.medieval (Usenet)

    And anyone who claims they have arrived at 'The scientific truth' is dangerously deluded. William of Ockham along with other mediæval thinkers was well aware of this : "Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate"

    2021 November 30, The Natural Philosopher, “Why Doesn't Root Dir Appear?”, in comp.os.linux.misc (Usenet)
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