Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
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- noun A person who studies the
medieval period ofEuropean history .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In my other life (as mediaevalist) these are the assumptions I am dealing with day after day.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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Would it not be a LOGICAL approach simply to wipe the entire region clean, like removing offensive, racialist, sexist, bigoted, mediaevalist graffiti from a blackboard?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Would it not be a LOGICAL approach simply to wipe the entire region clean, like removing offensive, racialist, sexist, bigoted, mediaevalist graffiti from a blackboard?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Even though I dont think it was right to support mediaevalist maniacs whose only concern was the freedom to abuse women and children that they regarded as "their" posessions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I won't tell you his name, but he is now the greatest mediaevalist calligrapher in Northern Europe, and official master copyist of manuscripts for universities the world over.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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To modern ears such exposition is at harsh discord with the simple human grief and longing of the poet, but to the mediaevalist symbolic theology was a passion.
The Pearl Sophie Jewett
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Less-commonly-used 8-bit word forms in this book include: anaemic bleme coeur manoeuvered mediaevalist tete-a-tete and the name "Borge".
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"Because you're a mediaevalist," Monsignor answered.
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I also noted the undercurrent of mysticism, mediaevalist and philosophy which seems inherent in the German nature.
The New Germany 1910
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I wrote black-letter characters on parchment and made pedigrees, and became so much of a mediaevalist that there was considerable risk of my stopping short in the amateur practice of such arts as wood-carving, illumination, and painting on glass.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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