a. Obs. Also 5 best-, 6 beestysshe. [f. BEAST sb. + -ISH1.] Partaking of the nature of a beast; = BEASTLY (in various senses).
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. i. (1495), 48. Bestysshe men and symple.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W.), I. iii. 24. Beestysshe, deuyllysshe and worldly … be they.
1643. Milton, Divorce, Wks. 1738, I. 182. Else it [marriage] would be but a kind of animal or beastish meeting.
1664. Flodden F., III. 32. Your beastish acts.
