Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bestial"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia
beast. See {Beast}.]
1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Among the bestial herds to range. --Milton.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bestial \Bes"tial\, n.
A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds
of bestial. [Scot.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bestial
adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
"a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
prisoners" [syn: {beastly}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}]
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