medieval

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Speaking of the five months that he spent in the "Dark Prison," which I have previously described as a medieval torture dungeon with the addition of ear-splittingly loud music and noise, which was pumped into the cells 24 hours a day, Binyam stated that these were the worst days of his captivity.

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  1. adjective Relating or belonging to the Middle Ages.
  2. adjective Informal Old-fashioned; unenlightened: parents with a medieval attitude toward dating.

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  • But the medieval is almost entirely out of our grasp This is an odd gap, to say the least, for a discipline that purports to be a holistic comparative study of human behaviour.
  • Its lines were medieval, although it looked very modern with its fieldstone walls and double row of roof dormers. —  Destroyer 106: White Water
  • At first, after I met Warren, I felt almost ashamed of my own field--medieval literature. —  Omni: June 1994
  • It is medieval, actually; it most resembles our society of a thousand or so years ago. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • There is much to be said about the scene: its barbarity, its theatrics, and its channelling of the medieval are all visible in a tableau now being routinely enacted before the world by the Taliban and its affiliated groups.
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armet · capelline · seneschal · tapestry · siege engine · refectory · quintain · oubliette · narthex · motte · messuage

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  1. From New Latin medium aevum, the middle age : Latin, neuter of medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots + Latin aevum, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/midɪˈivəl/
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