| 释义 |
ˈbeastish, a. Now rare.
Also 5 best-, 6 beestysshe.
[f. beast n. + -ish1.]
Partaking of the nature of a beast; = beastly (in various senses).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. i. (1495) 48 Bestysshe men and symple. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W.) i. iii. 24 Beestysshe, deuyllysshe and worldly..be they. 1643Milton Divorce Wks. 1738 I. 182 Else it [marriage] would be but a kind of animal or beastish meeting. 1664Flodden F. iii. 32 Your beastish acts. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 206 Human beings..he takes as he finds, noble and beastish, but..decent. |