Both Uses
medieval
in
The Lords of Discipline
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- Those found guilty of an honor violation were drummed out of the Corps in a dark ceremony of expatriation that had a remorseless medieval splendor about it.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Tradd and I were studying together for a test in medieval drama, straining irritably to extract meaning from those lean, extinct words that had fallen unmourned from the language.†
Chpt 4.37
Definitions:
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(1)
(medieval) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
(the period of European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance -- roughly 500–1500 AD)Often thought of as a time of instability, superstition, plagues, feudal lords, and knighthood. -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, medieval may be used to refer to something as old-fashioned and unenlightened.