(a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
(a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.
(n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reports of bestiality involving the use of animal tissue for erotic purposes have been published.
(2) Papers they have co-authored give a flavour of their stance: "If relativist philosophy is acceptable, then sadomasochism, bestiality and self-abuse are to be considered as wholesome activities," runs one.
(3) Their rare and spectacular characteristics have for long been considered as divine punishment for the sin of adultery or bestiality or on the other hand as a mark of fertility and a gift from God.
(4) Cory Bernardi has likened homosexuality to bestiality – and the Liberal party’s response was to give him the number one spot on the South Australian Senate ticket at last year’s federal election, ensuring he would be re-elected.
(5) In parliament he warned of “an army that is becoming bestial”, one “an army that has lost its moral backbone”.
(6) In an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity last year, Carson grouped gay marriage with bestiality and pedophilia.
(7) Bernardi is a staunch opponent of marriage equality and resigned as shadow parliamentary secretary in 2012 after making comments linking same-sex marriage and bestiality.
(8) Theorising about Frozen, talkshow host Kevin Swanson said satan had infiltrated the studio in the mid-1980s with the intention of indoctrinating preschoolers in homosexuality and bestiality.
(9) Since the 1st penal reform law of June 25, 1969 has come into force the section 175 b StGB (Penal Code) was canceled without substitution, and bestiality is no longer liable to prosecution.
(10) A great gangster movie must edit out any moments of bestial violence.
(11) Why, just a month ago as part of her election campaign, did she visit the notoriously homophobic Jesus House , a fundamentalist church that equates homosexuality with bestiality and has supported exorcisms to rid people of same-sex attraction?
(12) Police also found images of child abuse and bestiality at Wilson's home in Romford, Essex.
(13) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
(14) We were told gay marriage was the slippery slope to polygamy, bestiality and incest.
(15) There are polysexual orgies, incest, bestiality, semi-pubescent sex – polite softcore it is not.
(16) He tweeted a link to a Times diary story which reported that he was told: "No 10 says it has enough problems with the party in getting equal marriage through without you advocating bestiality," adding the comment: "Oh dear.
(17) He discusses the danger of blackmail and false accusations and the punishment of lesbian acts, bestiality, and masturbation.
(18) It's ignominious, bestial," Leila de Lima, who chairs the Philippines independent commission on human rights, told the Associated Press.
(19) The bestiality accumulated over years,” said journalist Konstantinov.
(20) The guilt feelings were reinforced by Hakims and lay literature which stress more on masturbation (79%) and spermatorrhoea (60%) and not extra-marital intercourse (52%) or bestiality (39%).
Faunal
Definition:
(a.) Relating to fauna.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to reviewing the faunal evidence, the highly relevant environmental and archaeological backgrounds are summarized.
(2) Some limited terrestrial faunal exchanges that occur during the Messinian between southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa do not deeply affect the general faunal dynamics.
(3) These differences appear in the physical, chemical and faunal aspects of the rivers, and mostly during periods of drought.
(4) The faunal composition of mosquitoes caught by species was (in descending order) Culex quinquefasciatus, Cx.
(5) The implications are that the parasite species distributions and character of parasite faunas will vary according to the distribution of the fishes and local faunal assemblages.
(6) Faunal impacts in the pond were generally of a smaller magnitude than were predicted by bioassay results.
(7) vulgaris Filippova and to certain other species of the eastern area of the Palearctic Faunal Region; it differs distinctly from A.
(8) Previously, this tick has not been reported from the Ethiopian Faunal Region (Kenya).
(9) Major faunal differences between the two environments reflected the extensive saline marsh and mudflat estuarine habitats at Batemans Bay and the predominantly freshwater stream, marsh, and lake habitats of Termeil State Forest.
(10) Biostratigraphic studies suggest a 13.6-15.2 Ma for the Friasian faunal zone.
(11) The fossil remains of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus specimen from Sterkfontein Member 4 temporally confined on faunal grounds to 2.5-3.0 million years before the present (Myr B.P.)
(12) Surveys of demersal fishes and macrofaunal invertebrates in the North Atlantic indicate 1) there is little evidence of coherence and continuity of faunal zones around the ocean basin and 2) that the community concept should be abandoned because faunal assemblages only persist on a local scale.
(13) Furthermore, this allowed for the comparison of the variations in ontogenesis (augmentation or reduction in the development), in relation to abiotic (detrital supply and upwelling processes) and biotic ecological factors (faunal density and interspecific competition).
(14) These isotopic data are consistent with pathological, faunal, and artifactual evidence of increased marine resource exploitation during the late prehistoric period.
(15) Both these latter formations have yielded faunal and floral assemblages that are very similar to those found at Nehden.
(16) Yet he was engaged also in faunal studies and became a reknown expert in entomology.
(17) Recent research shows that lowland forests of the Amazon Basin differ in numerous ways including features of climate and soils, faunal composition and forest structure, composition and phenology.
(18) Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer 1776), a distinctive tick of the Palearctic faunal region is redescribed from 941 specimens collected throughout its geographical range.
(19) On the basis of faunal analysis of 1.2 mln fleas collected from about 300,000 individuals belonging to 30 species of small mammals were obtained average indices of abundance and similarity between faunas of ectoparasites of different animals in a number of autonomous plague nidi of the Aral sea area.