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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Variant of medieval.

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  1. adj. alternative spelling of medieval.

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  • reesetee That is most definitely true. Aug 28, 2007

  • uselessness There's nothing indefinite about me. ;-) Aug 28, 2007

  • reesetee Still sticking with that "the," are you, uselessness? ;-> Aug 28, 2007

  • uselessness Because what the uselessness says, goes. Aug 28, 2007

  • reesetee Good points. And I don't even think to use them anyway, so I guess I'm safe! ;-) Aug 28, 2007

  • john Ligatures should work fine in Wordie, either the html character entity that colleen used or the unicode glyph. But I think we decided against them: search "ligature" on uselessness' "guidelines" thread: http://wordie.org/people/uselessness?wl=2847. Personally I think they're great in comments, but, in my opinion, best avoided when listing words. They're aesthetic (æsthetic?) and optional, and therefore not part of a word's actual spelling.

    There's a practical consequence too. The database sees "mediaeval" and "mediæval" as two different words. It's not a big deal to have multiple forms listed, but I think it takes away some of the fun when comments on what is really the same word get spread across variants. Aug 28, 2007

  • colleen yeah, it works as html, but I did not try putting it in as a word, not being sure the special character would translate. Aug 28, 2007

  • reesetee Looks as though it worked in your comment though, colleen. Aug 27, 2007

  • colleen in its most correct form, it would be mediæval, with a ligature, but I seemed to recall something about those not working well in Wordie? Aug 27, 2007

  • seanahan I've never seen it spelled this way, but google has 2.5 million hits, about a tenth of medieval, so I guess it is somewhat common. Aug 27, 2007

‘mediaeval’ has been looked up 507 times, added to 5 lists, commented on 10 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.