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bestiary

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bestiaryn. [LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire.].
     A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.  [1913 Webster]
    "A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bestiary, n. (pl. -ies) a moralizing medieval treatise on real and imaginary beasts.

Etymology
med.L bestiarium f. L bestia beast

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