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medieval

mi dee vuhl

  • a  relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
  • s  as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
    a medieval attitude toward dating
  • s  characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages

  • The medieval church offered protection for only about 30 to 40 days.
  • To the tourist traveling through France, medieval art seems just one dark cathedral after another.
  • They flow in to sample Yugoslavia's sylvan beaches and well-preserved medieval towns.
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  • William Hague in New York Daily News
    Stoning is a "medieval punishment which has no role in the modern world," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the AP on Thursday. "If the punishment is carried out, it will disgust and appall the watching world."
  • Pope Benedict XVI in CBS News
    These (words) were in fact a quotation from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thought,Benedict told pilgrims at his summer palace outside Rome.

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