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Adjective: medieval  `mee-dee'ee-vul
  1. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
    "Medieval scholars"; "Medieval times"
    - mediaeval
     
  2. As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
    "a medieval attitude toward dating"
    - mediaeval, gothic
     
  3. Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
    "medieval rites"
    - chivalric, knightly

See also: Middle Ages, nonmodern, past

Encyclopedia: Medieval