mediæval

«mediæval» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: medieval — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

medieval

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Of the Middle Ages. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we spell it "medieval". The meaning is the same, and "mediæval" is an old spelling.

examples

• 12 (return) [ Post-mediæval Preachers, by S. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) tree →
• 11 (return) [ Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the mediæval scholars. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) tree →
• Remarks.--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind. (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

medieval

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 7 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 0.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mediæval» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.