mediævalistic

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mediævalistic (comparative more mediævalistic, superlative most mediævalistic)

  1. (archaic or archaizing) Alternative form of medievalistic
    • 1628, Eustace John Breakspeare, Mozart[1], page 155:
      But this piece is to be comedy, pure and simple : not comedy of the modern, drawing‐room species, but comedy of the genuine, old‐fashioned sort, wherein even the diabolesque dénouement is not without the true “ comic ” flavour of the mediævalistic stage‐play.