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- adjective Alternative spelling of
medieval .
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Examples
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Spaniard -- and in his peninsula we may apply the term mediaeval to later dates than would be proper in France or Italy -- the desire of extending the dominion of the Church was a very real and powerful incentive to action.
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Readers will be aware of that hoary anti-Semitic trope, current in mediaeval times and more recently, that Jews murdered Christian children and made matzohs with their blood.
Truth is a defence 2009
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Yet Karzai believes he must bring in mediaeval legislation that legalizes rape -- in order to win the next election!
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Readers will be aware of that hoary anti-Semitic trope, current in mediaeval times and more recently, that Jews murdered Christian children and made matzohs with their blood.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The point is that it limits the degree of resemblance to Byzantium, where the Church had wealth and influence even greater than in mediaeval Italy or Christian Spain.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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The Name of the Rose is full of lists, categories, long discourses that catalogue the world in mediaeval terms.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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They may be rooted in mediaeval laws but, as they exist now, they are very new, indeed.
Justice is as justice does Helen 2006
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Paris because that's completely inaccurate, 'said Ms Newman, who also writes mystery novels set in mediaeval France.
It's just fiction. But it's a great book. But it's full of errors. But... 2006
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He inserts an arming key, then presses a button labelled in mediaeval Latin.
Magnificent headline amuchmoreexotic 2005
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He inserts an arming key, then presses a button labelled in mediaeval Latin.
amuchmoreexotic: Magnificent headline amuchmoreexotic 2005
seanahan commented on the word mediaeval
I've never seen it spelled this way, but google has 2.5 million hits, about a tenth of medieval, so I guess it is somewhat common.
August 27, 2007
colleen commented on the word mediaeval
in its most correct form, it would be mediæval, with a ligature, but I seemed to recall something about those not working well in Wordie?
August 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word mediaeval
Looks as though it worked in your comment though, colleen.
August 28, 2007
colleen commented on the word mediaeval
yeah, it works as html, but I did not try putting it in as a word, not being sure the special character would translate.
August 28, 2007
john commented on the word mediaeval
Ligatures should work fine in Wordie, either the html character entity that colleen used or the unicode glyph. But I think we decided against them: search "ligature" on uselessness' "guidelines" thread: http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=2847. Personally I think they're great in comments, but, in my opinion, best avoided when listing words. They're aesthetic (æsthetic?) and optional, and therefore not part of a word's actual spelling.
There's a practical consequence too. The database sees "mediaeval" and "mediæval" as two different words. It's not a big deal to have multiple forms listed, but I think it takes away some of the fun when comments on what is really the same word get spread across variants.
August 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word mediaeval
Good points. And I don't even think to use them anyway, so I guess I'm safe! ;-)
August 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word mediaeval
Because what the uselessness says, goes.
August 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word mediaeval
Still sticking with that "the," are you, uselessness? ;->
August 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word mediaeval
There's nothing indefinite about me. ;-)
August 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word mediaeval
That is most definitely true.
August 28, 2007