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单词 unbeast
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unbeastn.

Forms: Also Middle English vnbest(e, 1500s wnbeast, vnbeast, 1500s vn-, 1800s unbeist, 1700s Scottish onbeast.
Etymology: un- prefix1 6. Compare Middle Dutch and Dutch ondier, Middle High German and German untier, Danish and Norwegian udyr, Swedish odjur.
northern and Scottish. Obsolete.
A wild beast; a monster; a ravenous or vile animal. Also transferred.
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the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal
wild deerc825
wildc1275
Satanasc1300
wild beastc1325
unbeasta1400
savage?a1425
feral1639
man-keen1652
yelper1823
wildling1841
tiger1859
rogue1872
ferine1895
wilding1897
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19859 Quen petre þais vnbestes sagh, O þaim þan thoght him mikel agh.
c1400 Destr. Troy 7766 He auntrid on this Vnbest angardly fast.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 502 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 270 Pytuisly þe prince can pray, þat [þai] hyr kest nocht in þe se, met til vnbestis to be.
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 258 (Tullibardine) Bot this bargane, vnbeist, deir sall þou by it.
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) i. 47 Fye upon barnes, a nest for myce and rattons. Would yee desire to liue for to enjoye the leauinges of vnbeastes?
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 8 Has the onbeast your lambie taen awa'?
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 18.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Onbeast Unbeist,..a noxious member of human society; Ang[us].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

unbeastv.

Forms: 1600s vnbeast.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, beast n.
Etymology: < un- prefix2 + beast n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈbeast.
(un- prefix2 1d(b).)
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > make civilized [verb (transitive)]
civil1584
civilize1595
reclaim1603
unbeast1611
dissavage1631
unbarbarize1648
unbrute1670
disbarbarize1803
unbrutify1812
debarbarize1823
snivelize1849
unbrutalize1852
the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] > modify > appearance
disfigure?c1370
disguise1393
unbeast1611
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Disbestiare, to vnbeast, to vnrude.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 46 Let him vnbeast the beast..and her proud shape restore.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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