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noun

Bestial n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. (Scot.)

adjective

Bestial adj.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. " Among the bestial herds to range."

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.

Synonyms: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.

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Etymology of 'Bestial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bestial" Quotes from Famous Books

... is worse than a failure. "Our civilisation seems all so savage and bestial and filthy and inartistic; all so cowardly and devilish and despicable. We fight by cheatery and underselling, and adulteration and bribery, and unmanly smirking for our bone of a livelihood; all scrambling and biting round the platter when there is abundance for all, if we were ...

— British Socialism - An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals • J. Ellis Barker

... rarest quality. Far on in middle age, when men begin to lie down with the bestial goddesses, Comfort and Respectability, the strings of his nature still sounded as high a note as a young man's. He loved the harsh voice of duty like a call to battle. He loved courage, enterprise, brave natures, a brave word, an ugly virtue; everything that lifts ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... in slaves,—to my thinking, that festival should be for the mighty progress made towards the suppression of brutal, bestial modes of punishment. Nay, I may call them worse than bestial; for a man of any goodness of nature does not willingly or needlessly resort to the spur or the lash with his horse or with his hound. But, with respect to man, if he will not be moved ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... poetry was to extinguish for all self-respecting Germans Klinger's turgid prose. Borrow, like the translator of Rousseau's Confessions and of many another classic, takes refuge more than once in the asterisk. Klinger's Faustus, with much that was bad and even bestial, has merits. The devil throughout shows his victim a succession of examples of 'man's inhumanity to man.' Borrow's translation of Klinger's novel was reprinted in 1864 without any acknowledgment of the name of the translator, ...

— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter

... night for dreams, Mistress Helen, but in the daytime I will be but a plain farming body, concerned about bestial. . . ." ...

— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars

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