n. [ 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 Zoology. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]