mediæval

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See also: mediaeval

English

Adjective

mediæval (comparative more mediæval, superlative most mediæval)

  1. (archaic or archaizing) Alternative spelling of medieval
    • 1993, Magdalen Nabb, chapter 10, in The Marshal at the Villa Torrini, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 176:
      In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen.
    • 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:
      This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.