Meanings of bestiary (bestiaries) in anglès

They were a new subspecies, never described in the old bestiaries.

In medieval times, they had these beautiful books called bestiaries.

The bestiaries relate many strange things of the elephant.

Especially for those of us who dig bestiaries.

These are the grimoires"-hesplayed his long fingers along a row of leatherbound books-"andthese are bestiaries.

If I could say anything about the movies I do, I would love for them to become my personal bestiaries of fanciful creatures.

During the day I amuse myself by looking over bestiaries of the middle ages; looking up in the "authorities" all the most baroque animals.

In hopes of governing them, I split my soul and impressed its parts into the many different Bestiaries.

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

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

The basis of all Bestiaries is the Greek Physiologus, the origin of which can be traced back to the second century before Christ.

The same sort of science flourished in the Bestiaries, which were used everywhere, and especially in the pulpits, for the edification of the faithful.

There are extant to-day, whole or in fragments, Bestiaries in German, Old English, Old French, Provençal, Icelandic, Italian, Bohemian, and even Armenian, Ethiopic, and Syriac.

With brilliant finesse, she assigns social contacts to a grisly bestiary.

But he was half in love too with the bestiary of antique and wrongheaded lore.

A griffon from the pages of an illuminated bestiary.