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# mediæval

adjective

«mediæval» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Of the Middle Ages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/#m1)

### Then and now

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/#x3)

### Note

Today: medieval.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mediæval» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mediæval» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/medi_e6val.html) on Mova free.