The cloisters were built in 1170, but have been partlymodernised and totally disfigured by a coat of whitewash.
The small Tocador de la Reina, or Queen's dressing-room, with its quaint frescoes, was modernised by Charles V.
The dresses are frequently modernised in the fashion of the time, and other variations are occasionally introduced.
In the modernised version he gives of the wonderful Songe to AElla, he mars by his corrections the poem's metrical beauty, ruins the rhymes and robs the music of its echo.
Both are modernised for popular use, and are probably the volumes through which most of my own generation made their first acquaintance with King Arthur and his knights; but neither has any merit as to its editing.
The old tale, thus modernised in an epilogue, does not lose its dignity, for now the recoming of Arthur is the recoming of Christ in a wider and fairer Christianity.
Similarly Tennyson has systematically modernised the Arthurian legend in the Idylls of the King, giving us nineteenth century thoughts in a conventional mediaeval setting.
The passage has been modernised as little as is consistent with its intelligibility at the present day:– An.
So the tun or enclosure of the Culmings would be Culmingatun, similarly modernisedinto Culmington.
A similar charm undoubtedly existed in Anglo-Saxon, though no copy of it has come down to our days, as we possess a modernised and Christianised English version, in which the name of our Lord is substituted for that of Balder.
Much of the very ornate Anglo-Saxon prose of the latest period is full of strange verbal tricks, as shown in the following modernised extract from a sermon of Wulfstan.
The reader is recommended to compare it word for word with the parallel slightly modernised version, bearing in mind the inflexional terminations.
A good walk through pretty scenery to Dowrish, an ancient mansion, and once dating from King John's reign, but modernised in suburban villa style.
It is altogether a delightful example of a modernised form of "opera comique," and had reached its third representation when the luckless "Opera Comique" Theatre was burnt to the ground.
Rue Legendre, is a late 16th century house, whose interior arrangement and facade are intact, except for the woodwork of the windows, which was modernised in the 18th century.
This document dates from the days of the decay of the Roman religion, and is, of course, modernised by Livy; but it may give an idea of what is meant by writers who speak of an element of bargain or covenant in these vota.
I have only modernised the orthography for the convenience of the reader, but I have not altered a single word.
A modernised version of the Prioresses Tale will be found among Wordsworth's Poems.
Samuel Cobb published a modernised version of the Tale in 1712, which adheres rather closely to the original, but is of no value.
Its antiquity is undoubted, but too much of the town has been modernised and rebuilt.
There exists a very singular English burlesque of the unprofitable sermons of the preaching friars in the Middle Ages, which is worthy of Rabelais himself, and of which this is a modernised extract: Mollificant olera durissima crusta.
Most of the quaint features of the town have been modernised away--so thriving a commerce as here flourishes could not long tolerate the old narrow crooked streets.
In an old-world country like France it is not unusual to find striking contrasts between those parts of a city which have been absolutely modernised and other portions still preserving their ancient appearance.
Their very great beauty, moreover, makes them well worth practising, and even justifies their use (in a modernised form) for special MSS.
The interior of the Cathedral has been modernised and painted to represent carved stone.
Amongst other of Ravenna's churches the modernised basilica of S.
The abridged and modernised version was probably the one with which Moll was familiar.
I have modernised it into the "Little boy defying the beadle.
I've modernised it into the "Black footman frightened by an omnibus:" this is it.
If they had given it any name at all, that name would probably have been Lul ceaster, which might have been modernised into Lulcaster or Lulchester.
Modernised though it be, Staines is by no means bereft of all antiquity.
There is no house of public entertainment in Eton which is distinguished by the modernised term, hotel; but there are some decent inns, the most comfortable of which is reported to be the "Christopher.
The passage from which the above citation is taken is highly significant also in another and related bearing, and it is at the same time highly characteristic of the most effective modernised classical economics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modernised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
