单词 | beastlihead |
释义 | † beastliheadn. Obsolete. A mock title of respect or form of address given to a beast or a brutish person. Also: the state or condition of being a mythical beast or wild animal; beasthood.In quot. 1887 referring to the Prince of Wales's patronage of the boxer John L. Sullivan, characterized by the writer as a criminal and a wife beater. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality beastlinessc1400 beastishness1530 beastlihead1579 bestiality1603 brutality1603 beastlihood1612 ferinenessa1676 doggishness1755 animalism1831 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 265 Sicke, sicke, alas, a litle lack of dead, But I be relieued by your beastlyhead. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G4 Or else be peregall to Nymphes of old, From which their beastlihed now freely start. 1887 New Mississippian 3 Jan. 1/7 The Prince..invites him to a banquet and places himself on a perfect level with the beastlihead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021). < |
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