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Перевод: medieval
[прилагательное] средневековый
Тезаурус:
- But then you hear a traveller at the railway station, prepared as a medieval knight, daysack on his front, chickenwire behind, was hit by five fat women, coming at him from all directions.
- One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon.
- Medieval North European civilization was to some extent an insular entity, shielded from its own past and from an encroaching future.
- The Medieval University Legend
- The money raised by the medieval trustees responsible for the upkeep of the bridge was surplus to requirements, and enabled the bridge to become a landowner, in which capacity it has helped the poor of the town and built and maintained the old grammar school.
- Its association with Stamford is connected with the legend of the medieval university and the name of Brazenose, which was linked to the "brazen head" and Oxford University where Bacon really worked.
- The Anglican Church in Wales possesses a remarkable number of medieval churches.
- Even in incessant rain it still seemed lovely and, at least within its walls, remarkably unspoilt, though behind the medieval faades many houses have been relentlessly modernised.
- Discussion of this transformation was confined to the great tradition of philosopher-scientists beginning with Aristotle, continuing with medieval authors, such as Oresme and Jordanus, and ending with Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and, of course, Newton.
- Social relationships in medieval Sussex were based on military needs as much as economics, at least until the later fourteenth century.
- Medieval Old Town, great for shops and restaurants.
- It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age, the panoramic canvases of John Martin, Edward John Poynter, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples, palaces, baths, and amphitheatres of the ancient world, and the novels of Walter Scott, Harrison Ainsworth, and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles, Tudor mansions, and unbridled Gothic imagination.
- "He was a medieval scholar and he loved physical activity, punishing himself like the medieval saints.
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