bestiale

Ainsy vivant, quant au corps, de vie bestiale, et quant à l'esperit, de vie angélicque, passoit son temps en lectures, contemplations, prières et oraisons ayant un esperit joieux et content, dedans un corps emmaigry et demy mort.

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

But she gives a similar description of Marguerite's stay on the island, after his death, and says, that although she lived what might seem a bestial life as to her body, it was a life wholly angelic as regarded her soul (_aînsî vivant, quant au corps, de vie bestiale, et quant à l'esprit, de vie angelîcque_).

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

“Hanno costoro un bestiale e orribile costume, che quando alcuno e guidicato a morte, lo tolgono, e cuocono, e mangian’ selo.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It is the word with which Condivi describes the appearance of Michael Angelo's nose after it had been broken -- it was "_un poco stiacciato; non per natura_," but by the blow of a certain Torrigiano, "_huomo bestiale e superbo_." [

Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

It may or may not be comforting to know that speakers of other languages engage in the same practice of "opposites": Italian bestiale (lit. ` brutish, bestial; atrocious ') ` great, marvelous, good' and bestia (lit. ` beast ') ` friendly'; German Strick (lit. ` rope ') ` necktie'; Turkish gavurca (lit. ` language of the unbelievers ') ` any foreign language' (compare the origin of barbarian).

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982