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bes⋅tial

  [bes-chuhl, bees-]
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–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
2. without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners.
3. beastlike in gratifying one's sensual desires; carnal; debased.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME (< AF) < LL bēstiālis (L bēsti(a) beast + -ālis -al 1 )

Related forms:
bes⋅tial⋅ly, adverb
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bes·tial   (běs'chəl, bēs'-)   
adj.  

  1. Beastly.

  2. Marked by brutality or depravity.

  3. Lacking in intelligence or reason; subhuman.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia, beast.]
bes'tial·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

bestial 
1393, from O.Fr. bestial (13c.), from L. bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast). Sense of "below the dignity of a human" is from c.1400. Bestiality "unnatural connection with a beast" is first attested 1611; OED 2nd ed. marks this usage as obsolete, but that was before the proliferation of porn spam.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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