Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being an animal or like an animal.
- noun Conduct or an action marked by depravity or brutality.
- noun Sexual relations between a human and an animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The qualities or nature of a beast; conduct or mental condition unworthy of human nature; beastliness.
- noun Unnatural connection with a beast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being bestial.
- noun Unnatural connection with a beast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A status of lower
animal . - noun archaic An animal-like
instinct orbehaviour . - noun archaic A
mark , trait, oremblem of abeast . - noun Sexual activity between a human and another species.
- noun dated
Bestial innature , savagery,inhumanity , like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man" - noun dated Any abstract entity similar to a
beast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stupid brutal quality of a beast
- noun sexual activity between a person and an animal
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Examples
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In the first case we may properly apply the term bestiality; in the second case it may perhaps be better to use the term _zooerastia_, proposed by Krafft-Ebing. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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So do you support rights for polygamists, folks who engage in bestiality, child molesters, dendraphiliacs and the other perverts who are judged by their sexual preferences?
ShePop: Carrie Prejean's tale of an ultra-modern pageant girl | EW.com 2009
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Why is it illegal, deviant, and cause for imprisonment for some farmer to engage in bestiality inside a barn if he's doing it for personal enjoyment, but perfectly legal for that same farmer to do it as part of "standard agricultural practices" used to put animal corpses on our nation's dinner tables?
Bruce Friedrich: Does Eating Meat Support Bestiality? Bruce Friedrich 2010
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The act of bestiality is a step closer to becoming illegal in Florida now that a Senate committee voted to slap a third-degree felony charge on anyone who has sex with animals.
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Why is it illegal, deviant, and cause for imprisonment for some farmer to engage in bestiality inside a barn if he's doing it for personal enjoyment, but perfectly legal for that same farmer to do it as part of "standard agricultural practices" used to put animal corpses on our nation's dinner tables?
Bruce Friedrich: Does Eating Meat Support Bestiality? Bruce Friedrich 2010
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Reducing sexual practices to the level of bestiality, is a crucial feature of Satanism in all historical periods studied, from Phrygian Cybele-Dionysos cult-period onward.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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[Opponents] of the gesture, including several religious leaders, said the resolution would protect immoral behavior and even encourage pedophiles and those who engage in bestiality to come to Baton Rouge.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The problem with bestiality is that, morally, clearly communicated consent has to be a precondition for sex.
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The problem with bestiality is that, morally, clearly communicated consent has to be a precondition for sex.
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[Opponents] of the gesture, including several religious leaders, said the resolution would protect immoral behavior and even encourage pedophiles and those who engage in bestiality to come to Baton Rouge.
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