bestiary

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  1. noun A medieval collection of stories providing physical and allegorical descriptions of real or imaginary animals along with an interpretation of the moral significance each animal was thought to embody. A number of common misconceptions relating to natural history were preserved in these popular accounts.
  2. noun A modern version of such a collection.

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  • She'd understood at one level what a bestiary was. —  Time Scout
  • Some rode horses, some carried nets and tridents like the bestiary hunters. —  Time Scout
  • And though the exact moral of this allegorical bestiary is unknown, it's hard not to wince as you peer into their empty eyes and try to find some meaning.
  • You must do all sidequests, espers, magicks, techniques, full bestiary, all concurrences to get it.
  • His physicality is almost parody: Whilst the popular conception of Conan is a bit reductionist, do prepare for mighty thews, steely thews and rippling thews; a veritable bestiary of thews. —  Larvatus Prodeo
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  1. Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia, beast.

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  1. from Middle Latin bestiarium, neuter of Latin bestiarius, pertaining to wild beasts (as a n., a beast-fighter), from bestia, a wild beast.
 

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