adj. (old, now recognised).—Lecherous. [As vieing with a goat in lust.] Hence GOATISHLY, adv., and GOATISHNESS, subs.

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  1622.  MASSINGER and DEKKER, The Virgin Martyr, iii., 1.

        Give your chaste body up to the embraces
Of GOATISH lust.

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  1605.  SHAKESPEARE, King Lear, i. 2. An admirable evasion of whoremasterman, to lay his GOATISH disposition to the charge of a star.

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