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Relating to time or duration. [Obs.]

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

Valuation; appraisement. J. S. Mill.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

A horse; hence, a support or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." Shak.

period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

The cavally or jurel. See Cavally, and Jurel.

Want of prevalence. [Obs.]

Long-loved; longevous.[R.] Pope.

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

ions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]

ddle 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.

Same as Medi, Medi, etc.

Prevalent everywhere or in all things. Fuller.

The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him. Clarendon.…

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