bestialized

Do you recall where, as a child, she accidentally saw a ritual where a woman was being bestialized by a coven in the middle of a downstairs room?

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Do you recall where, as a child, she accidentally saw a ritual where a woman was being bestialized by a coven in the middle of a downstairs room?

[the dark one] alive, kicking and sentient [1] 2009

When Lao-tse wrote that 'the sage is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs,' he provided an epigraph for the cruel frivolities of John Hawkes's and John Barth's latest fiction, in which the hapless characters are raped, carved up, burned with cigarettes, bestialized.

Straw Dogs Wolcott, James 1982

It is impossible for a man whose affections are bestialized, whose practices are libertine, and whose imaginations are all impure, to receive the truth that there are such things as purity and virtue, and that there are men and women around him who are virtuous and pure.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

The wits of our people have been blunted, their habits bestialized, their very climate and landscape ruined.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

Everything tends to lose its hallowed meaning; it becomes degraded, bestialized.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

When his peaceful home was stormed by the bestialized hordes of

Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900

With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment.

The God-Idea of the Ancients 1897

Hence the Negro, at the close of the war, was all that American slavery would make any people, viz.: bestialized and animalized; ignorant, poor, crude, rude; helpless, moneyless and thoughtless.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

The designed product of the slave system, which Dr. Steel calls "a mild and humane system of bondage," was a dehumanized and bestialized thing, and there was no stone left unturned, no vigilance was deemed to exacting, no privations and cruelty too heartless, and no punishment too severe and diabolical to compass the end desired.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896