Bestiaries [noun]

Definition of Bestiaries:

fantasy, story

Synonyms of Bestiaries:

● Parable

● Myth

● Yarn

● Fiction

● Tale

● Fantasy

● Legend

● Hogwash

● Lie

● Falsehood

● Invention

● Crock

● Romance

● Apologue

● Whopper

● Fib

● Figment

● Untruth

● Allegory

● Fabrication

● Bunk

● Fairy tale

● Fish story

● White lie

● Fairy story

● Old chestnut

● Old saw

● One for the birds

● Tall story


Opposite/Antonyms of Bestiaries:

● Sense

● Truth

● Non-fiction


Sentence/Example of Bestiaries:

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.

Bestiary, a name given to a class of books treating of animals, viewed allegorically.

This theme is found in the Physiologus, a 256 medieval bestiary.