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middle ages

Word definitions for middle ages in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"period between ancient and modern times" (formerly roughly 500-1500 C.E., now more usually 1000-1500), attested from 1610s, translating Latin medium aevum (compare German mittelalter , French moyen âge ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Middle \Mid"dle\ (m[i^]d"d'l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]27 See Mid , a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Middle Ages was a period in Western history spanning the time from the 5th to the 16th century (approximately: 400–1500) Middle Ages or middle age may also refer to: Middle age , a stage of life Middle Age: A Romance , a novel by Joyce Carol Oates The ...

Usage examples of middle ages.

Thus passed away one of the greatest conquerors of the Middle Ages.

But the Good Lord of the Middle Ages who allowed the serf to remain a slave all his life had bestowed an immortal soul upon this humble creature and therefore he must be protected in his rights, that he might live and die as a good Christian.

This perpetuation of forms and beliefs is illustrated in the fact that the formulas used in the Middle Ages in Europe to exorcise evil spirits were Assyrian words, imported probably thousands of years before from the magicians of Chaldea.

This is a ruined Khan of the Middle Ages, in one of whose side courts is a great walled and arched pit with water in it, and this pit, one tradition says, is the one Joseph's brethren cast him into.

In the Middle Ages, it was customary to get up at dawn but eat your first meal at ten in the morning.

I had all my inoculations and T-cell enhancement and everything, but one of them must not have worked or else this is some Middle Ages disease there aren't any inoculations for.

It is the first - and greatest - epic poem of the Middle Ages, and a revelation of the medieval mind.

Note: Compare the admirable sketch of the degeneracy of the Latin language and the formation of the Italian in Hallam, Middle Ages, vol.

The old tower Psephina, in the middle ages Neblosa, was named Castellum Pisanum, from the patriarch Daimbert.