a. Obs. Also 7–8 beastian. [f. L. bestia, BEAST + -AN.] Of or belonging to the ‘Beast’ of the Apocalypse (cf. BEAST 7). Bestianism, the power of the Beast; Bestianize, to be a follower of the ‘Beast.’

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1652.  Culverwell, White Stone (1661), 134. This Bestian Empire, (for so ’tis stil’d in the Revelation,) delights only in sensuals, and strikes at spirituals.

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1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., 208. It does not follow, because the number of the Beast is not upon us, that we do not Bestianize.

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1691.  Beverley, Mem. Kingd. Christ., 9. Even as if It were the Beastian Power. Ibid. (1701), Apoc. Quest., 30. The Life, and Beastianism, Idolatrous Supremacy, shift from one Head to another.

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