beastdomn.
/ˈbiːs(t)dəm/, U.S. /ˈbis(t)dəm/ 1. The realm or kingdom of beasts.
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1816 W. S. Rose tr. G. B. Casti Court of Beasts iv. vii. 54 To make war's civil horrors cease, And the conflicting Beastdom mix in peace.
1858 Lancaster Gaz. 25 Dec. 8/1 To call this Serjeant..simply a ‘beast’ would be an insult to entire beastdom, where could be found only his superiors.
1903 P. Ingraham Girl Rough Riders xiv. 206 That night there was trouble in beastdom.
2004 C. Smith Big Cats, Small Cats 27 All combined they give the view he's beastdom's ‘top bananer’.
2. The state or condition of a beast. Somewhat rare.
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the world > animals > [noun] > animal nature
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animalness1730
bestial1785
beastship1828
beasthood1837
brutehood1852
animalhood1863
beastdoma1876
brutedom1890
a1876 J. Addis Elizabethan Echoes (1879) 57 Sorrow..had freed the woman-soul from that foul den of crusting beastdom.
1914 C. P. Gilman Social Ethics viii, in Forerunner Aug. 217/1 We should not so have made our glorious leap up from beastdom and savagery in a few scant thousands of years.
1960 L. C. Eiseley Firmament of Time 108 The Neanderthal people reveal no such quick descent to beastdom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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