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Etymology

From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).

derived from médiéval

Definitions

1
Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
- The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.
Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural…
Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
Someone living in the Middle Ages.
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  A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
  - Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.

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Derived

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A definitional loop anchored at medieval. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

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