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bestiarist

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bestiarist
a compiler or writer of bestiaries.
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23) Such associations, which speak nicely to Bottom's function as the object of Titania's passion, then translate for the bestiarist into a concomitant spiritual laxity: [I]n spiritual terms the ass, being a brutish and lecherous creature, signifies the pagan people over whom the Lord was thought worthy to preside when he entered Jerusalem, making them subject to Him, and leading them to the heavenly country.
Economies of desire in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Boehrer, Bruce / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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