单词 | bestiality |
释义 | bestialityn. 1. The nature or qualities of a beast; spec. lack of reason or intelligence; stupidity, brutishness.In later use somewhat rare and difficult to distinguish from sense 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > nature of bestialitya1413 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] rethenesseOE grimcundleȝcc1175 fellhead1340 ferteec1380 fiercenessc1384 savagenessa1400 grimliness14.. fellnessc1410 bestialitya1413 fierceheadc1440 cruelness?a1475 inhumanity1477 bremeness?1529 fury1534 tigerness1535 bruteness1538 immanity1539 wolvishness?1548 ferity?c1550 brutishness1567 truculency1569 Phalarism1581 ferocity1606 savagerya1616 brutality1633 inhumanness1649 wolfishness1676 boarishness1682 brutism1687 truculence1727 ferociousness1766 bestialism1824 tigerhood1846 Calibanism1859 unhumanness1885 inhumanism1907 Hunnishness1914 the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > animal nature of man > [noun] > brutishness bestialitya1413 brutality1550 bruteness1590 brutalism1803 bestialism1824 brute-mindedness1843 beaver-intellect1850 beaverism1850 brutalization1874 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 735 Or artow lyk an asse..That hereth soun..But yn his mynde of þat no melodye May synk yn hym to glade, for þat he So dul is of his bestialite. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1362 Espiyng well the beastiality of the Fleminges his Neighbours. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 164 As Politicians ofttimes..handle the matter, there hath bin no where found more bestialitie. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 66 in A. Pope Wks. II What can be a greater absurdity, than to affirm Bestiality to be the Essence of Humanity? 1874 St. G. Mivart in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 773 The great doctrine concerning the essential Bestiality of Man. 1985 B. Seifter in K. Lawrence et al. McGraw-Hill Guide Eng. Lit. I. xvi. 356 The vivid and repugnant physical descriptions of the Yahoos..are..a laying bare or exposing of humanity's essential bestiality and animal nature. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > collectively bestialityc1550 livestocka1687 living stock1690 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 To keip bestialite and to manure corne landis. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 35 Paris..vas ane scheiphird and kepit bestialite on montht ydea. 3. Sexual intercourse between a person and an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > bestiality and zoophilia buggery1533 beastliness1576 bestiality1576 bestialism1865 zoophilia1906 1576 J. Fouler tr. T. More Brief Fourme of Confession iii. f. 28v If it be with a beast in any maner of wise, it is called the sinne of bestialitie or beastlines. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 143 A poor miserable Fellow accused of Bestality. 1761 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Dec. 646/1 Bestiality, [was] sanctified by the amours of Jupiter. 1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis v. 405 In Persia bestiality is frequently practised because of the delusion that it cures gonorrhœa. 1985 Sydney Morning Herald 27 July 9/1 An 83-year-old man has been charged with two counts of bestiality. 2015 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. (Late ed.) a7/2 Denmark passed legislation Tuesday banning bestiality, toughening a law that animal rights activists feared was encouraging animal-sex tourism. 4. a. A bestial or brutal habit, practice, or act; a vice; spec. a lustful or obscene sexual act.The exact sense of quot. 1594 is unclear; it may refer to an offensive or disgusting thing. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > immoral conduct or habits > a vice or bad habit unthewc897 miswonea1200 unlawc1225 vicea1300 misthewa1325 mistetch?c1450 bestiality1594 vitiosity1643 misteach1803 unvirtue1869 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 4 His guests..leaue behind them also such vnmannerly annoyances, called beastialities, that the Nobleman and Gentleman that hath thus crammed his quoistrels, must of necessitie forsake their house and housekeeping, till a good winde blow away the vnpleasant sauours their Christmasse Poulcats leaue behind them. 1601 T. Wright Passions of Minde xvi. 134 What fornications, adulteries, incests, and other bestialities are effected in the furious flame of fleshly lust? a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 189 They..tickle themselves with the wanton remembrances of their younger bestialities. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 241 Their Wives and Children..[were] not safe from Bestialities, even in their most retired Apartments. 1874 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 626/2 He goes on graphically to describe the mockery of legislative proceedings, the brutalities and bestialities which characterise them. a1947 A. Crowley Astrology (1974) vii. 53 Herschel also causes drug habits and alcoholism but in this case it is a vice, a bestiality. 2006 J. R. Stromberg in Independent Rev. 11 159 Government leaders and their blindly nationalistic followers invariably tolerate and even glorify many of the bestialities perpetrated during warfare. b. The state or condition of degradation or debasement; depravity; spec. brutal or cruel behaviour; lasciviousness, lust. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality beastlinessc1400 beastishness1530 beastlihead1579 bestiality1603 brutality1603 beastlihood1612 ferinenessa1676 doggishness1755 animalism1831 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 799 As for the other Muses, their office and charge is to support and hold up that which is inclined and prone to pleasure, plaie and disport, not to suffer it through weaknesse and imbecillity to runne headlong into loosnesse and bestiality. 1710 Tatler No. 241. ⁋4 The unhappy Consort of his Bestiality. 1868 J. Barbiere Scraps from Prison Table i. 50 They have..left the deluded beings..to live in a state of bestiality and misery. 1945 Common Sense July 25/2 The Germans are condemned on the basis of the assertion that they permitted the bestiality of the camps. 2016 T. Provost in Monsters of Film, Fiction, & Fable vi. 199 The arched neck and the licking of lips are also clearly animalistic, again linking women with carnal bestiality. c. Filthy or obscene language. rare (now archaic). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language swarec1200 shit-wordc1275 words of villainya1300 filtha1400 reveriec1425 bawdry1589 scurrility1589 bawdy1622 tongue-worm1645 borborology1647 Billingsgatry1673 double entendre1673 smut1698 blackguardism1756 slang1805 epithet1818 dirty word1842 French1845 language1855 bad languagec1863 bestiality1879 swear-word1883 damson-tart1887 comminative1888 double entente1895 curse-word1897 bang-words1906 soldier's farewell1909 strong languagea1910 dirty story1912 dirty joke1913 bullocky1916 shitticism1936 Anglo-Saxonism1944 sweary1994 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xv. 241 Filthy verses..about Clodius and Clodia, ribald bestiality, delightful to the ears of Tully. 2006 D. Pinner Richelieu ii. in Three Power Plays 163 It hurts me profoundly to hear such bestiality seeping out of royal lips. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1413 |
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