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.
BESTIAL
beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, brutal
(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; “beastly desires”; “a bestial nature”; “brute force”; “a dull and brutish man”; “bestial treatment of prisoners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)
(literally and figuratively) Beast-like
Synonyms
• beastly
• animalian
Hypernyms
• faunal
Noun
bestial pl (plural only)
(Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
Anagrams
• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bastile, libates, stabile
Source: Wiktionary
Bes"tial, a. Etym: [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast.]
1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.
2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.
Syn.
– Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.
Bes"tial, n.
Definition: A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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