early modern
adjective
Of, belonging to, or designating that period of history regarded as the earliest stage of modern history, now usually taken as extending from the late 15th cent. until the 18th cent.
- Early Modern English: a phase in the history of the English language lasting from approximately 1500–1700..
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in The Examiner.
- pectorally
- pectoral muscle
- pectoral quail
- pectoral ridge
- pectoral sandpiper
- pectoriloquy
- pectose
- pectosic
- pectuncle
- pectunculate
- pectus
- pectus carinatum
- pectus excavatum
- peculate
- peculation
- peculative
- peculator
- peculiar
- peculiar institution
- peculiarise
- peculiarism
- peculiarity
- peculiarize
- peculiarly
- peculiar nation