a. and adv. [f. BEAST sb. + LIKE.]
A. adj. Like a beast in nature, or in habits.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 117 b. We be all carnall and beestlyke.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., V. iii. 199. Her life was Beast-like and deuoid of pitty.
1601. Bp. Barlow, Defence, 148. Those beastlike passions … which rage within us.
1868. Tennyson, Lucr., 228. Why should I, beastlike as I find myself, Not manlike end myself?
B. as adv.
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, VII. ii. 497. They lived … beastlike, without any pollicie.
