Of or relating to beasts; having the quality or nature of a beast; animal-like.
From Latin bestia (beast) + -an (adjectival suffix). A rarer variant of bestial, less common in modern English but found in historical and literary texts.
This is a 'ghost word'—relatively rare in actual use—but it reminds us that English has multiple ways to say similar things: bestial, bestian, and even beast-like, each with slightly different emotional weight and scholarly origins.
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