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单词 bestiality
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bestialityn.

Brit. /ˌbɛstɪˈalᵻti/, /ˌbiːstɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌbɛstʃiˈælədi/, /ˌbɛstiˈælədi/, /ˌbistʃiˈælədi/, /ˌbistiˈælədi/
Forms: Middle English–1500s Scottish bestialite, 1500s beastialitye, 1500s bestialitye, 1500s–1600s beastialitie, 1500s–1600s bestialitie, 1500s–1700s beastiality, 1600s beastiallity, 1600s bestality, 1600s– bestiality.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Middle French bestialité ; bestial adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: Partly (i) < Middle French bestialité (French bestialité ) a bestial or beast-like act or practice (13th cent. in Old French as bestiauté ), bestial or beast-like character (late 14th cent.), stupidity (late 15th cent.), sexual intercourse between a person and an animal (17th cent.) < post-classical Latin bestialitas (11th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources) < bestialis bestial adj. + classical Latin -itās -ity suffix. Partly (ii) < bestial adj. + -ity suffix.Compare Catalan bestialitat (14th cent.), Spanish bestialidad (1st half of the 15th cent., or earlier), Portuguese bestialidade (14th cent.), Italian bestialità (c1260).
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.
2. Scottish. Domesticated animals; esp. livestock. Cf. bestial n.1 Obsolete.Apparently only attested in Complaynt Scotl.
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).
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