English

Alternative forms

• medievalise

Verb

medievalize ‎(third-person singular simple present medievalizes, present participle medievalizing, simple past and past participle medievalized)

1. (transitive) To make medieval.
   • 1861 April 6, The Athenaeum, number 1745, page 470:

     We may notice the 3rd, 6th and 7th examples, designed by Mr. W. T. Sams, especially the first named, a lumpy and mediævalized Town Hall.

   • 1885, Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, letter dated January 23 1859, page 290:

     I don't mean that you are to Grecianize their dress, any more than medievalize it.

   • 1888, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, page 247:

     The "Mort d' Arthur," on the contrary, has become the plaything of medievalizing folk in modern England.

   • 2004, Thomas C. Moser, A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts, page 13:

     In the former we find erotic poems that medievalize classical Latin verse under the guidance of Neoplatonic rhetoric, to produce mannered, pedantic play with poetic language and form that takes advantage of erotic situations for grammatical and rhetorical ends.