单词 | beastship |
释义 | beastshipn. Now rare. ΚΠ 1637 T. Heywood tr. Ovid in Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 170 How dost thou like thyne usage, madam Cow? Your lodging and your dyet..? Or how doth your faire beastship feele your selfe? 1705 J. Browne Fox set to watch Geese 11 Now, I desire, your Beastship wou'd Consider th' best, for both our good, Since, as a Brute, you do profess Such kindness for the Lyonness. 1839 Bath Chron. & Weekly Gaz. 12 Sept. 4/6 We made a call on this enormous animal at his lodgings in the Cattle Market. We understood his beastship was just up. 1890 H. Bell Beauty & Beast ii in Chamber Comedies 307 Oh, your lordship—your beastship, I mean—it was not for myself I took the rose. 1909 Mangum (Oklahoma) Star 6 May The one touching the trunk thought his beastship was like a snake; so each of the seven blind men compared the elephant to something resembling his individual point of tactility. 2. The state or condition of being a beast. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [noun] > animal nature brutality1711 animalness1730 bestial1785 beastship1828 beasthood1837 brutehood1852 animalhood1863 beastdoma1876 brutedom1890 1828 ‘A. Eldon’ Continental Traveller's Oracle I. 85 They [sc. asses] cannot be injured or insulted with impunity, or their free rights of beastship infringed on, any more than if they were lions or elephants, or any other beast of quality or condition. 1941 Gospel Messenger 8 Mar. 12/1 His [sc. the lion's] royal beastship and kingship show him in subjugation of other beasts of the wilderness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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