bestiary
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- noun
- /ˈbɛstɪˌɛri/
- Literature
- The medieval bestiary illustrated various animals with moral lessons attached to their characteristics.
- a medieval bestiary
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Watch on YouTubeSo we talked about bestiaries and Hildegard von Bingen and this secret society called the Brethren of Purity.
- So we talked about bestiaries and Hildegard von Bingen and this secret society called the Brethren of Purity.
Examples
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So we talked about bestiaries and Hildegard von Bingen and this secret society called the Brethren of Purity.
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The paragraph about the hyena is lifted from a 13th-century Bestiary in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, translated by Richard Barber.
Fiction book (1999) -
There had been pictures of wolves in the Fabulous Bestiary Vervain had given him for his fifth birthday.
Fiction book (1993) -
The same notion is found in the Middle Ages, in the Bestiary, which states that the wolf's "neck is never able to turn backward."
Academic text (1996) -
Mermaids are represented in Roman mosaics, medieval churches, and bestiaries.
Academic text (1996) -
Indeed, the bestiary has a second entry for the Hoopoe—this, T. H. White explains, often happens in medieval bestiaries—in which we are told that "the bird lines its nest with human dung."
Academic text (2001) -
In the library, she found an ancient bestiary that detailed the mythical beasts of folklore.
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He admired the intricate drawings of dragons and unicorns in the historical bestiary from the 12th century.
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Etymology
Bestiary comes from the Latin word bestia, which means 'beast'. In the Middle Ages people made picture books full of real and made-up animals called bestiaries, so the word today means a book that describes beasts.