beluin

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of belluine .

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“[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; […]”

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