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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In Carrington's personal bestiary the horse was the principal icon. ▪ Later still, in a Medieval bestiary , three courageous birds are shown in the act of attacking an owl's head.
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A bestiary , or bestiarum vocabulum , is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the Ancient world , bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"medieval treatise on beasts" usually with moralistic overtones, 1818, from Medieval Latin bestiarium "a menagerie," also "a book about animals", from bestia (see beast ). A Latin term for such works was liber de bestiis compositus . Roman bestiarius meant ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestiary \Bes"ti*a*ry\, n. [LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire.] A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. A bestiary . . . in itself one of ...
Usage examples of bestiary.
He downed a healthy swallow and waited for the next bit of bestiary lore.
The discussion on the mating habits of bestiary animals had not progressed as far as it had the last time she had brought up the subject with a man.
Gossamyr had once read in the bestiary, written in gold text below the image of a charging knight.
The bestiary had illustrated the beautiful colored windows and alluded to the tempestuous religions that reigned in the center of many a war between the mortals.
Like Anna, I had lunch with Katrina from time to time, if I happened to be working at the bestiary office when she was there.
The bestiary project was an exception, and there she was just on the committee acting in my stead.
She was quite junior, of course, so the other members of the bestiary exhibition team often used her as a gofer, I think you call it.
But for its grisly diversion to Port Newark, it would have been a perfect object for the bestiary show.
They both were involved in the bestiary show, so we had regular meetings together.
We entered the museum on West Seventy-seventh Street, heading directly for the basement offices of the joint bestiary exhibition.
Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was unimagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being.
I suggest the need for a new bestiary, to take the place of the old ones.
In short, Speckle Frew is less an island than it is a bestiary, and it is not to be trespassed lightly.
I said, thinking, what with grammasites, a minotaur, Yahoos and a million or two rabbits, life in the bestiary must be something of a handful.
Those poor monks sitting around their tables dutifully writing out bestiaries had no way of verifying many of the reports they got about animals in far-off places, remember.