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Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediæval architecture. [Written also medieval.]

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]

In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediævalism.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. " A very mediocre poet." Pope.

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon.

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. -- n. (Anat.)

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between t…

A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate; specif. (Chem.), denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.