Crossword clues for bestial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast.]
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Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Among the bestial herds to range.
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Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.
--Shak.Syn: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.
Bestial \Bes"tial\, n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French bestial (13c.) "relating to animals, stupid, foolish, bestial" and directly from Latin bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast). Sense of "below the dignity of a human" is from c.1400, and in many cases its use is unjust to the beasts.
Wiktionary
a. (context literally and figuratively English) beast-like
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bestial is a 1982 music album by the Spanish group Barrabás. It was the band's eighth and penultimate album, and the last to feature several members including long-time vocalist José Luís Tejada.
Usage examples of "bestial".
The bellowing of the basto mingled with the roars and growls of the tharban in a hideous diapason of bestial rage that seemed to rock the forest.
All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh.
God--an illimitable, omnipotent, paternal spirit, who rewarded the good and punished the wicked--in contradistinction from the multifarious, subordinate, animal and bestial demi-gods of the other nations of the earth.
He was filled with horror at the vision of a maddened humanity, sacrificing its most precious treasures, strength, and genius, its highest virtues, to the bestial idol of war.
Before he could witness the result, the creature holding him vented a bestial roar and hurled him to the hard ground.
He vented a bestial growl and came off the ground in a frenzied rush, hurtling at the demented monstrosity responsible for the death of his beloved.
He skipped nimbly out of reach of each threatening female--for such is the way of apes, if they be not in one of their occasional fits of bestial rage--and he growled back at the truculent young bulls, baring his canine teeth even as they.
He found himself looking into the darkest, beadiest, most animal-like eyes he had ever seen on another human being, so bestial they reminded him of the eyes of bears.
When this happens the Huntsmen roar with bestial laughter, and the fags shriek and twitch.
She spotted Joan Grenville standing naked in the room and let out a low moan, a curious mixture of disappointment and despair, as though somehow the party were irrevocably ruined by this selfish, bestial conduct under her very roof.
Let anyone who imagined that the Neanderthals had been mere bestial shaggy half-men listen to Timmie retelling the story of Theseus in the Labyrinth!
And scan him: the features inspect Of that bestial multiform: cry, Corroborate I, O Samian Sage!
Javelins began to fly from both sides, and the swelling meeps of the ghouls and the bestial howls of the almosthumans gradually joined the hellish whine of the flutes to form a frantick and indescribable chaos of daemon cacophony.
But its face, limned in the bright moonlight, was bestial, with close-set ears, flaring nostrils, and a great flabby-lipped mouth in which gleamed white tusklike fangs.
Sometimes the ape shouted blasphemies in the name of the Sister and other human Gods, but mostly he squealed in bestial terror.