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Definition of Bestial
1. Adjective. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. "Bestial treatment of prisoners"
Similar to: Inhumane
Derivative terms: Beast, Beastliness, Beast, Bestiality, Bestialize, Brutalize, Brutalize
Definition of Bestial
1. a. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
2. n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
Definition of Bestial
1. Adjective. (context: literally and figuratively) Beast-like ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestial
1. pertaining to beasts [adj] - See also: beasts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestial
Literary usage of Bestial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of Prayer: Or The Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the by William Law (1823)
"No sooner had he got this knowledge, by the opening the bestial life and sensibility
within him, but in that day, nay, in that instant, he died; that is, ..."
2. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"Titian's picture is made quite bestial. _ I think Sir James Scarlett's speech
for the defendant, in the late action of Cobbett a. The Times, for a libel, ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"Nay, credulity was so great that it was -believed some human beings were begotten
in bestial relations. Thus Attila was by some declared to have been ..."
4. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"Satan was pictured as having horns and hoofs—an image of the sensual and bestial —
which led Cuvier to remark that the adversary could not devour, ..."
5. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"The monsters bred in sin and shame by the Atlantean Giants, "blurred copies" of
their bestial sires, and hence of modern man, according to Huxley, ..."
6. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... war be most abundant bliss. say "And since to-day some glory he mi gain л
Against a monstrous bestial enemy And that the meaning of my dream is pUk. ..."
7. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"The animals employed for agricultural labour and for bestial. carriage, as well
as those intended for food, are generally kept in stables, and the fodder is ..."
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