Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BEAST
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
(noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
(noun) a cruelly rapacious person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Beast
(biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
A wild animal, or seemingly so, which roams free in a country it is usually only found in zoos. (For example The Beast of Bodmin Moor).
Anagrams
• Bates, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes
Etymology
Noun
beast (plural beasts)
Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
(slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
(slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
(slang, derogatory, prisons) A sex offender.
(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
Verb
beast (third-person singular simple present beasts, present participle beasting, simple past and past participle beasted)
(British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
Adjective
beast (comparative more beast, superlative most beast)
(slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
Anagrams
• Bates, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes
Source: Wiktionary
Beast, n. Etym: [OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F. bête, fr. L. bestia.]
1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10.
3. As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
5. A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] Wright.
6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn.
– Beast, Brute. When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a beast, and then treated his family like a brute.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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