To make bestial or animal-like; to degrade someone to the level of a beast.
From 'be-' plus 'beast' (animal). This verb carries moral judgment, suggesting degradation or loss of human dignity.
Religious and moral writers used 'bebeast' to describe extreme human cruelty or loss of civilization—it's one of the strongest insults a medieval writer could deploy, suggesting someone had become subhuman.
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