Examples
“Spaniard -- and in his peninsula we may apply the term mediaeval to later dates than would be proper in France or Italy -- the desire of extending the dominion of the Church was a very real and powerful incentive to action.”
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“The point is that it limits the degree of resemblance to Byzantium, where the Church had wealth and influence even greater than in mediaeval Italy or Christian Spain.”
“Readers will be aware of that hoary anti-Semitic trope, current in mediaeval times and more recently, that Jews murdered Christian children and made matzohs with their blood.”
“Yet Karzai believes he must bring in mediaeval legislation that legalizes rape -- in order to win the next election!”
“The Name of the Rose is full of lists, categories, long discourses that catalogue the world in mediaeval terms.”
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“Paris because that's completely inaccurate, 'said Ms Newman, who also writes mystery novels set in mediaeval France.”
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“They may be rooted in mediaeval laws but, as they exist now, they are very new, indeed.”
“He inserts an arming key, then presses a button labelled in mediaeval Latin.”
“One can look back to the nomenclature of the game of rounders and find many of the current words: bat, hit, strike, plate, foul, field, team, mound -- all were part of the game of rounders as it was played virtually in mediaeval times in England.”
“We usually think that the people in mediaeval times were much given to superstition and religious bigotry, that an ecclesiastical caste overan the country and held it under a yoke of lead.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mediaeval’.
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Words that have "ae" or "oe"
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acoelous, cacoethes, aeschylean, aborvitae, phaeochrous, aeneous, algae, aesthetic, aerobics, daedal, vitae, minutiae and 53 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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labile, memento mori, rallentando, ouspenskian, lascar, dodderer, prophesying, laudanum, empyrean, bedlamite, rondure, tantamount and 38 more...
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with a sense of adoration
becomma, aesthetic, cadency, catharsis, chantepleure, meraki, mediaeval, pianoter, subvocalisation, tempestuous, tulle, serendipity and 32 more...
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the right way to spell them
Tweets
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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