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    mediaeval


    1. They lay side by side, two statues from a mediaeval tomb in a village church


    2. One afternoon I paused in the foyer of the university library to examine a display of mediaeval manuscripts


    3. It appears to be a mediaeval monk's cell


    4. played so prominent a part in the battles of mediaeval times were mantras of


    5. One case was that of a mediaeval monk, very


    6. mediaeval saints were very full of a devotion that was often beautiful, and


    7. The documents, discovered in a mediaeval tomb by


    8. Additions to the Scripture doctrine have resulted in its indiscriminate rejection the rabbinical, patristic, and mediaeval writers have each in turn promoted that state of thought, which is now ending in a general disbelief in diabolic power


    9. Protestants of all ages have commonly thought that these predictions have received at least one signal accomplishment in the history of post-Nicene and mediaeval Christianity


    10. But we are witnessing the breaking up, through the action of external and internal forces, of the mediaeval and patristic theologies

    11. It is conceived that the views of the Christian Revelation reproduced from antiquity in these pages might at least in many cases be well fitted (1) to offer an effective resistance to the Atheistic tendencies of this age, and (2) to reclaim to evangelical faith numbers who have been shocked and provoked into various forms of Deism by the monstrous exaggerations of mediaeval theology, and the conventional life of the modern churches


    12. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand substituted for the free institutions of mediaeval Spain


    13. For the mediaeval ages and before the mediaeval ages,


    14. The short treatise de Monarchia of Dante is by far the most remarkable of mediaeval ideals, and bears the impress of the great genius in whom Italy and the Middle Ages are so vividly reflected


    15. `"I do not believe," says Mr Froude, "that the condition of the people in Mediaeval Europe was as miserable as is pretended


    16. There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within


    17. Beneath that cheerful face there lurked the spirit of a mediaeval assassin


    18. And then suddenly I remembered how ancient this building was, and how probable that some mediaeval passage existed in it


    19. 'There's no forgiveness, Gretchen, there's no forgiveness for you here !' Gretchen tries to pray, but only cries of misery rise up from her soul—you know when the breast is convulsed with tears—but Satan's song never ceases, and pierces deeper and deeper into the soul like a spear ; it gets higher and higher, and suddenly breaks off almost in a shriek : ' The end to all, accursed one ! ' Gretchen falls on her knees, cla-sps her hands before her—and then comes her prayer, something very short, semi-recitative, but naive, entirely without ornament, something mediaeval in the extreme, four lines, only four lines altogether—^tradella has some such notes—and at the last note she swoons ! General confusion


    20. ** Do you remember—wait, I will have another glass—do you remember, there's one passage at the end, when they— that mad old man and that charming girl of thirteen, his grandchild, take refuge after their fantastic flight and wandering in some remote place in England, near a Gothic mediaeval church, and the little girl has received some post there, and shows the

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    Synonyms for "mediaeval"

    gothic mediaeval medieval

    "mediaeval" definitions

    relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages


    as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened