<entry id="2356841" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1424700</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>中世史</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ちゅうせいし</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1424690">中世</xref>
<gloss>medieval history</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2026-01-07 18:45:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Sombrero1</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Changing to way more common spelling.
I don't think we should have both. We usually have spelling variants listed if they're both common, like with BrE AmE differences. This isn't the case here</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Daijs

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=medieval%2Cmediaeval&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2022&amp;corpus=en&amp;smoothing=3

Wiktionary calls mediaeval an "old spelling".

.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;mediaeval history&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1424690"&gt;中世&lt;/xref&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;medieval history&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2026-01-08 01:10:16" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I was brought up using mediaeval, but I guess we can drop it.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>