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Definition of Bestiality
1. Noun. The stupid brutal quality of a beast.
2. Noun. Sexual activity between a person and an animal.
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Definition of Bestiality
1. n. The state or quality of being bestial.
Definition of Bestiality
1. Noun. (archaic) A status of lower animal. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour. ¹
3. Noun. (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast. ¹
4. Noun. Sexual activity between a human and another species. ¹
5. Noun. (dated) Bestial in nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man" ¹
6. Noun. (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestiality
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Medical Definition of Bestiality
1. Sexual relations with an animal. Synonym: zooerastia. Origin: L. Bestia, beast (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestiality
Literary usage of Bestiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"CHAPTER XXXIII THE FORCING-HOUSE OF bestiality THE Germans have given to us an
illustration, though such was not needed by thinking men to convince them of ..."
2. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"SODOMY, bestiality, AND BUGGERY 125. Sodomy is carnal copulation against the
order of nature by man with man; or in the same unnatural manner with woman; ..."
3. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual by Richard Krafft-Ebing (1922)
"But there is another group of cases falling well within the category of bestiality,
in which decidedly a pathological basis exists, indicated by heavy taint ..."
4. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1873)
"Sodomy is commonly understood to signify unnatural intercourse between man and
man, while bestiality implies unnatural intercourse with animals. ..."
5. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"bestiality is in a large number of cases a function of degeneracy: it has all the
... bestiality. IT will be recalled that in the chapters devoted to public ..."
6. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"... them that sexual intercourse should be continued.87 It has been held that
these statutes are constitutional.88 SODOMY, bestiality, AND BUGGERY 125. ..."
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