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Definition of Bestiary
1. Noun. A medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals.
Definition of Bestiary
1. n. A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.
Definition of Bestiary
1. Noun. A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestiary
1. a collection of animal fables [n -ARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestiary
Literary usage of Bestiary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Specimens of Early English by Richard Morris (1885)
"A bestiary. BEFORE AD 1250. THE Old English bestiary is a free ... 360), which
may have formed part of an Old English poetical bestiary. ..."
2. Legends and Satires from Medieval Literature by Martha Hale Shackford (1913)
"The mediaeval bestiary was a book which sought to enunciate religious instruction
... The source of the bestiary is to be found in the Greek " Physiologus" ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"A bestiary in one of the Arundel MSS. of the British Museum* was copied by Thomas
Wright, and was ascribed by him to the earlier half of the thirteenth ..."
4. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"THE bestiary The bestiary, or Physiologus, had a history of something like a
thousand years before it entered Middle English, which it did as a translation ..."
5. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... Riwle— The Moral Ode—Genesis and Exodus — The bestiary — The Orison of our
Lady — Proverbs of Alfred and ..."
6. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1895)
"... and a few years afterwards a Bestiaire in lines partly of six syllables and
partly of eight syllables.1 An English bestiary made its appearance not long ..."
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