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mediævalize, medievalize, v.|mɛdɪ-, miːdɪˈiːvəlaɪz|
[f. mediæval + -ize.]
a. trans. To make mediæval in character.
b. intr. To favour mediæval ideas or usages.
1854J. L. Petit Archit. Stud. France 173 He tries to mediævalize himself and his ideas. 1859Kingsley Let. 23 Jan. in Life (1877) II. 77 Some illustrators..have tried to medievalize them [Bunyan's characters]. 1874J. Fergusson in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 765 Views opposed to the Paganism of St. Paul's or to the attempt to mediævalize it.
Hence mediˈævalized ppl. a.; mediˈævalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1881Symonds Renaiss. Italy IV. iv. 247 The ‘Mort d'Arthur’..has become the plaything of medievalising folk in modern England. 1897Edin. Rev. Jan. 76 The poet's [sc. Wm. Morris] mediævalised mind and turn of thought..are more in accordance with the mediæval character of the subject. 1900J. L. Davies in W. E. Bowen Crisis Eng. Ch. Introd. 7 The mediævalising movement in the Church of England. Ibid. 12 If his whole soul is in the mediævalising of the Church of England. |