bestial
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
bestial
- (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, Scene 3,
- Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 753-4, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV]
- By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /
- Among the bestial herds to range […]
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
- This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, Scene 3,
- (Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
- 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine (page 94)
- […] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.
- 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine (page 94)
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