bestiary
a collection of moralized fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.
Origin of bestiary
1Other words from bestiary
- bes·ti·a·rist [bes-chee-er-ist, -cher-, bees-], /ˈbɛs tʃi ər ɪst, -tʃər-, ˈbis-/, noun
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How to use bestiary in a sentence
The quantum spin liquid is the latest entry in that bestiary of cryptid states.
Physicists just gifted us ‘quantum spin liquid,’ a weird new state of matter | Rahul Rao | December 2, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe maps for US congressional and state legislative races often resemble electoral bestiaries, with bizarrely shaped districts emerging from wonky hybrids of counties, precincts, and census blocks.
Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering | Siobhan Roberts | August 12, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewFor the structure of this verse, see p. 327; the following is a restoration and scansion of the passages in the bestiary.
The author of the bestiary was acquainted with one or both of these.
The medival bestiary was a book which sought to enunciate religious instruction by an appeal to the curiosity of credulous people.
Another bestiary, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same manner.
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 | William Dunn MacrayA bestiary of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold.
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 | William Dunn Macray
British Dictionary definitions for bestiary
/ (ˈbɛstɪərɪ) /
a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
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