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mediaeval

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1. mediaeval - Noun

2. mediaeval - Adjective

3. mediaeval - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new knowledge. Thomas Henry Huxley

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. Joseph Conrad

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with. Werner Herzog

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other. Saki

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. Goldwin Smith

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. Goldwin Smith

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