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bestiary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 the numerous
medi[ae]val renderings of the fantastic mystical
zo["o]logy.
--Saintsbury.
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 "a fighter against beasts in the public entertainments."
Wiktionary
n. A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
WordNet
n. a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
Wikipedia
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 of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning. For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life with its own blood, was a living representation of Jesus. The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.
Bestiary (2001) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. This album showcases the musical concept that Rich has long referred to as “glurp”. It evokes a frenetic and surreal landscape inhabited by a wide variety of bizarre organisms.
Work on this album began while Rich was working to create a library of Acid Loops for the Sonic Foundry company. He had previously created an Acid Loop library in 1999 called Liquid Planet. In this project Rich began creating a library of unusual sounds with his new MOTM modular synthesizer. As the synthesizer grew, Rich became increasingly impressed by its potential and decided to abandon the Acid Loop project in favor of creating a new album. MIDI played an extremely limited role in this album as most of its material was recorded live to hard disc with the audio feature of the Cubase program. It was then assembled into a continuous 53 minute audio file.
Bestiary is the second studio album by American hip hop group Hail Mary Mallon. The album was released on November 10, 2014, by Rhymesayers Entertainment.
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.