bestializev.
/ˈbɛstɪəlʌɪz/, /ˈbɛstʃl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈbiːstɪəlʌɪz/, /ˈbiːstʃl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈbɛstʃəˌlaɪz/, /ˈbɛstiəˌlaɪz/, /ˈbistʃəˌlaɪz/, /ˈbistiəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To brutalize, debase. Also: to change (someone or something) into the form or nature of a beast.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities > brutalize
bestialize1610
unman1626
bestiate1628
embrutish1639
imbrutish1639
bebeast1640
imbrute1640
beast1646
brutify1668
brutalizea1704
embrutalize1876
1610 T. Fitzherbert 2nd Pt. Treat. Policy & Relig. xiv. 184 Is there anie thing that doth more..bestialise, the soule of man, then the excesse of the pleasures of the flesh.
a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 122 The most famous Guides of the Heathen world..bestialized him [sc. God] in the form of a brute.
1766 tr. P.-J. Boudier de Villemert Ladies Friend 21 These nations were for making themselves amends by gross voluptuousness; but this has only benumbed their senses, and bestialized their souls.
1845 Edinb. Rev. July 11 While he bestializes men and humanizes beasts, he is a great moralist.
1964 A. King Time of Green Ginger xii. 263 How can we raise our voices for humanity when we are bestializing ourselves like our tormentors?
2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 May 44/4 Groups who are denounced or bestialized in pamphlets, billboards, talk radio, and blogs.
Derivatives
ˈbestialized adj.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > brutalized
bestialized1751
imbruted1765
unhumanized1794
1751 tr. J. Pernetti Philos. Lett. Physiognomies xi. 87 Where they [sc. reason and reflections] are wanting, there's no such thing as Pleasure of any kind for me; and Humanity is debased and bestialized where it is otherwise.
1879 W. Dassel tr. C. Capellmann Pastoral Med. (1882) 54 Weak and decrepit..those children of bestialized parents drag, by thousands, their weary load of life.
2016 Irish Jrnl. of Gothic & Horror Stud. 15 28 A group of horses that are frightened by the bestialised Englishman are testimonies of the colonised's animality.
ˈbestializing adj.
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the world > animals > [adjective] > as opposed to man > making
bestializing1813
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] > making
brutalizing1803
bestializing1813
brutifying1816
1813 W. J. Baldwin Punishment without Crime 146 Thou wilt be ashamed to see thy natural equal sinking in want..while thou art wasting in enervating delicacy, in surfeiting, debasing, bestializing pamperment and luxury.
1919 Canad. Mag. Jan. 766/2 Any soldier who has gone through the bestializing experiences which I have just detailed.
2010 Polit. Theory 38 403 As a result of the bestializing effects of these descriptions..Hottentot idleness took on the whiff of scandal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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