adv. Also 5 bestyally, 7 beastially. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In the manner of a beast or brute; brutishly, brutally.

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c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., xlvi. 411. Bestialle men that leuyn bestially.

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1640.  Case Ship Money, 23. Why the French Pesants are so beggarly, wretched, and beastially used.

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1679.  J. Smith, in Jenison, Narr. Popish Plot, 48. How inhumanely and beastially … they dyed.

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[1755.  in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.]

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