BESTIARY

bestiary

(noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bestiary (plural bestiaries)

A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.

Anagrams

• Sybarite, sybarite

Source: Wiktionary


Bes"ti*a*ry, n. [LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire.]

Definition: 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 mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy. Saintsbury.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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