bestiary 的定义
plural bes·ti·ar·ies.
- a collection of moralized fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.
bestiary 近义词
等同于 fable
更多bestiary例句
- The maps for US congressional and state legislative races often resemble electoral bestiaries, with bizarrely shaped districts emerging from wonky hybrids of counties, precincts, and census blocks.
- For the structure of this verse, see p. 327; the following is a restoration and scansion of the passages in the Bestiary.
- The author of the Bestiary was acquainted with one or both of these.
- The medival bestiary was a book which sought to enunciate religious instruction by an appeal to the curiosity of credulous people.
- Another Bestiary, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same manner.
- A Bestiary of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold.