medieval

[ˌmediˈiːvl]

Definition:
1. Connected with the Middle Ages (about AD 1000 to AD 1450).
2. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages.
3. As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened.

Use 'medieval' in a sentence:

1. They took on a life of their own and they inspired the medieval imagination, spurred on the age of discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries.
2. Do you really want to work in a medieval jail?
3. Each year on Halloween and 31 July, the Angelystor is said to appear in the medieval church of Llangernyw in Conwy.
4. After all, the colonists had just come from Europe and the medieval period was just ended.
5. Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.
6. We also have evidence that various medieval markets employed a kind of police to make sure that people did not sell spoiled food.
7. The two poems we are looking at today fall into the category of medieval times.
8. Just beyond St. Mark's Square, a cruise ship passes, one of hundreds every year that appear over their medieval surroundings.
9. The college dates back to medieval times.
10. This is one of the thousand oak trees that have been specially8 selected for Notre Dame. Smaller tree trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters.
11. This is a medieval story.
12. Medieval Universities of Western Europe: A Historical Description and Analysis.
13. The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly to derive from the ancient Viking tradition.
14. They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play.
15. Feelings of hopelessness among medieval workers trapped in the poverty cycle gradually lessened as it became possible for women's labor to supplement a family's money income by more than pennies.
16. Overview on Studies of Medieval Warm Period in China.
17. Why this medieval fascination with spices?
18. The figure comes from a medieval romance.
19. What more proof does one want that medieval factors still controlled Chinese rural life.
20. This is a valuable medieval manuscript.
21. The Change of Environment and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe.
22. The main action of her latest novel takes place in medieval spain.
23. A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides.
24. I've often heard that medieval glass windows are thicker at the bottom because glass "flows" like a fluid.
25. It's commonly said that medieval Europeans wanted spices to cover up the taste of spoiled meat.
26. There are four tones both in medieval Chinese and modern Chinese.
27. I needed to talk to you about the medieval history test you know, the one scheduled for Friday afternoon.
28. Some medieval towns raced donkeys or buffaloes.
29. And yes these poems were also sung; many troubadours were able to make a living being full-time poets which should tell you something about the value of that profession during medieval times.
30. The house is medieval.
31. He was much admired for his work on medieval literature.
32. You can see in it world-class collections of Oceanic, Asian, African and native American art — canoes, sculptures, masks, and textiles — and major archaeological discoveries, ranging from the earliest stone tools, discovered by Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge7, to British finds from Roman and medieval periods.
33. In medieval times, a lance couched under the rider's arm, unifying the force of rider and weapon, would throw its wielder backwards off the horse at impact.
34. Part One describes the Medieval Warm Period, roughly 900 to 1200.
35. The rooms are furnished and recreate the atmosphere of the castle's medieval heyday.
36. Statistic Analysis of the Causes of war in Medieval Europe.
37. The East Window is a wonder of medieval glazing.
38. Medieval agriculture in northern Europe fed, clothed and sheltered a predominantly rural society with a much lower population density than it is today.
39. Actually, the model for planning a town in the Northern colonies was not unlike the model for the development of towns in medieval Europe.
40. Xia Da has created a medieval town full of elf princesses and knights, and a quiet ancient town with innocent children and mysterious legends.
41. In medieval times the church held sway over many countries.
42. My people don't know about the medieval world.
43. Spices inspired the medieval imagination.
44. The Structure of Rural System in Medieval England.
45. The gallery is a treasure trove of medieval art.
46. The clock was the greatest achievement of medieval mechanical ingenuity.
47. This church is a classic example of medieval architecture.
48. This was accomplished so that the team could examine and repair the churches' original medieval stone blocks.
49. He began studying politics and medieval history.
50. Medieval Europe gave new importance to reliable time.
51. Because the midpoint of the Medieval Warm Period was about 850, an extension of Bond's cycles would place the midpoint of the next warm interval in the twenty-fourth century.
52. The house is a textbook example of medieval domestic architecture.
53. It is a perfect example of a medieval castle.
54. I've often heard that medieval glass windows are thicker at the bottom because glass flows like a fluid.
55. Hundreds of others are more obscure in their meanings and testify to the amazing specialization in medieval arts, crafts and functions.
56. He was able to pinpoint on the map the site of the medieval village.