What is "bestiaries"

Usage examples of "bestiaries".

Check his volumes for any bestiaries, commanded Alonda, who was convinced that there was a fifth species of troll as yet un-recorded in her own volumes.

And for Alonda he plunged through those bestiaries he could read, but could not push the number of troll species past four.

And Alonda was adamant that there had to be a fifth breed of troll, and that Khadgar had obviously not found the proper bestiaries.

Sketches of fauna that may have been new to the observer, but were better duplicated in the bestiaries already in the library.

The Bestiaries almost invariably conclude the account of each animal with the moral that might be drawn from its behaviour.

Mention must also be made of the purely fabulous animals of the Bestiaries, such as the basilisk, centaur, dragon, griffin, hydra, mantichora, unicorn, phoenix, etc.

It may be questioned, however, whether the architects and preachers of the Middle Ages altogether believed in the strange fables of the Bestiaries.

In moralized bestiaries he is, of course, an allegory of the Devil, and is so used by Milton.

Yama and Telmon had most of the major verses of the Puranas by heart, and were guided by Zakiel to read extensively in chrestomathies and incunabulae, but while Telmon dutifully followed the program Zakiel set out, Yama preferred to idle time away dreaming over bestiaries, prosopographies and maps—most especially maps.