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medieval

/mee-dee-ee-vuhl, med-ee-, mid-ee-, mid-ee-vuhl/US // ˌmi diˈi vəl, ˌmɛd i-, ˌmɪd i-, mɪdˈi vəl //UK // (ˌmɛdɪˈiːvəl) //

中世纪,中世纪的,中世,中古时代

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture.Compare Middle Ages.
    • : Informal. extremely old-fashioned; primitive.

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Examples

  • The best kind of cast iron scrubber also happens to look like it could be part of a medieval suit of armor.

  • Eventually, that data will help researchers plumb the depths of medieval microbiomes to understand how the microscopic populations of our intestines have evolved over the centuries.

  • For now, the study offers a few small hints about medieval life and suggests that ancient toilets have more to tell us.

  • To the artists who embraced it, including Leonardo, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, this fresh approach also established a sharp break from the hard, flat style of medieval art.

  • Called folium, this watercolor had been used to paint images on the pages of medieval manuscripts.

  • Even in the medieval era this disparity made Christians uncomfortable.

  • The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

  • If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.

  • It is difficult to overstate how destructive the practice of dismembering ancient and medieval books is.

  • From reports it must once have been a lovely old city with stone houses and a medieval quarter.

  • In classical and medieval times bridges were constructed of timber or masonry, and later of brick or concrete.

  • The medieval importance of these markets and fairs for the sale of wool and wine and later of cloth has gone.

  • The Celtic language reappeared; the Celtic art emerged from its shelters in the west to develop in new and medieval fashions.

  • Towers of Babel, medieval mythologies, and extensive smearings of that kind, he could find leisure!

  • Besides, what he has to say about dentistry occurs in typical medieval form.