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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/#m1)

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

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/medi_e6val/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.