What's the difference between bestial and feral?

Bestial


Definition:

  • (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%).

Feral


Definition:

  • (a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
  • (a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tests were conducted on naturally infected fish from feral populations and commercial sources, as well as on fish which were experimentally infected with a virulent culture of Aeromonas hydrophila.
  • (2) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (3) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
  • (4) The yeast Cyniclomyces guttulatus (Saccharomycopsis guttulata) was shown in this study to line the stomach of domestic and feral rabbits, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
  • (5) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
  • (6) From one side we hear that it's about feral youth, and from the others its all about inequality.
  • (7) In New Zealand's four main feral red deer populations (n = 188) the DIA1F allele frequency ranged from 0.491 to 0.985.
  • (8) Evidence of viral transmission by feral animals was not obtained.
  • (9) A behavioural study of feral horses was conducted on the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in the western United States.
  • (10) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
  • (11) Six hundred sixty-one feral swine (Sus scrofa) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USA) were captured, bled, and their sera tested for pseudorabies virus (PRV) antibody during a 6 yr period.
  • (12) This is the first study in which it has been possible to demonstrate a close morphological congruity between a set of idiopathic hepatic lesions in any feral population and an established series of hepatic lesions inducible in rodents by certain hepatocarcinogens under laboratory conditions.
  • (13) For periods of 3, 6, and 12 months, 104 feral rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were on test.
  • (14) The feral heart stopped at a mean of 10-4 hours (range 0-5 to 25 hours) after the injection of PGF2alpha.
  • (15) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (16) The social behavior of feral horses was studied in the western United States.
  • (17) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (18) Captive feral mares were similar to domestic breeds in the percentage of mares ovulating all year and in the P levels achieved during the estrous cycle and pregnancy.
  • (19) Having been quite feral, he was proud of his domestication."
  • (20) Some breeds came from other countries, others were developed from feral animals and yet others were created in this state by crossing and selective breeding.

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