Meaning of belluine | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, characteristic of, or pertaining to beasts; animal, bestial; brutal.

obsolete

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Examples

“[…] God ſuffereth his Church to be ſo afflicted, and more, eſpecially to be conſidered in ten, a perfect and compleat number, the compleat ripeneſſe of ſinne and impiety in that Belua [beast]; and as an indefinite number ten, being underſtood for many, as ſex centa pro infinito numero, the often aſſaults of his beluine homes and fury: […]”

“[H]ad you ſtaid, you would have taken but little comfort in your life, in regard that ever ſince ther have bin the fearfulleſt diſtractions here that ever happen'd upon any part of the earth, a Beluin kind of immanity never rag'd ſo among men, inſomuch that the whole Countrey might have taken its appellation from the ſmalleſt part thereof, and be call'd the Iſle of Dogs; for all humanity, common honeſty, and that Manſuetude with other Moral Civilities which ſhould diſtinguiſh the rational Creature from other Animals, have been loſt here a good while; […]”

“He that perſecutes Chriſtianity, muſt perſecute righteouſneſs, peace and joy in the Holy Ghoſt, in which whoſoever ſerveth Chriſt (as every one muſt do that ſerves him) is accepted of God and approved of men; and therefore to deſpiſe Chriſtianity, is not only Belluine but Deviliſh.”

“[…] And again, becauſe ſome Men are not guided by Reaſon, but a belluine Appetite of ſenſible things, and owning no eſſential Diſtinction of moral Good and Evil, or of Mine and Thine, have no other Standard to act by, and no other End in view, but only their temporal Self-intereſt; […]”

“There are three kinds of men, he [Girolamo Cardano] says—the divine, which neither deceive nor are deceived; the human, which deceive but are not deceived; and the belluine, which cannot deceive but are deceived. Men who deceive and are deceived belong to a compound sort; they are part human and part belluine.”

“When a great truculent, bull-headed man, who has been living in the indulgence of the most beluine parts of his nature, begins to be subdued by home influences, and the little child is able to lead him; when his great strength begins to be brought under the control of his tenderer domestic affections, everbody says, “How beautiful the sight is!” It is beautiful.”

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