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bestiality|bɛstɪˈælɪtɪ|
[ME. bestialite, a. F. betialité: see bestial and -ity.]
1. The nature or qualities of a beast; want of intelligence, irrationality, stupidity, brutality.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 735 For that he [an ass] So dul is in his bestialite. 1563Grafton Chron. Mary an. 5 (R.) Espiyng well the beastiality of the Fleminges his neighbours. 1649Milton Eikon. xviii. Wks. (1851) 468 As Politicians oft times..handle the matter, there hath bin no where found more bestialitie. 1714Arbuthnot, etc. Mart. Scribl. (J.) What can be a greater absurdity than to affirm bestiality to be the essence of humanity? 1874Mivart in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 773 The great doctrine concerning the essential Bestiality of Man.
2. Indulgence in the instincts of a beast; brutal lust; concr. a disgusting vice, a beastly practice.
a1656Bp. Hall Remains 189 (L.) They tickle themselves with the wanton remembrances of their younger bestialities. 1659Gentl. Call. (1696) 77 The sordid bestialities of the most abject of men. 1710Tatler No. 241 ⁋4 The unhappy Consort of his Bestiality. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iii. 241 Their Wives and Children..[were] not safe from Bestialities, even in their most retired Apartments.
b. Filthy language, obscenity.
1879Froude Cæsar xv. 241 Filthy verses..about Clodius and Clodia, ribald bestiality, delightful to the ears of Tully.
†3. Unnatural connexion with a beast. Obs.
1611Bible Lev. xx. Argt., Of Sodomie. Of Beastialitie. Of vncleannesse. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Fam. Ep. Wks. (1711) 143 A poor miserable fellow accused of bestality. 1765Goldsmith Ess. xiv. ⁋5 Bestiality [was] sanctified by the amours of Jupiter.
†4. = bestial n.1 Obs.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 43 To keip bestialite and to manure corne landis. Ibid. 44 Paris..vas ane scheiphird, and kepit bestialite on montht ydea. |