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中期英語

語源 1

Borrowed from Old French beste, from Latin bēstia. First attested in c. 1225.

別の表記

beest, beeste, best
beast (Early Middle English); beaste (Late Middle English)
beist (Northern); beyst (Promptorium Parvulorum)

発音

IPA: /ˈbɛ̝ːst(ə)/, /ˈbɛst(ə)/

名詞

beste (plural bestes)

An animal or creature (life in the kingdom Animalia, sometimes including mankind):
1. A (landborne and mammalian) quadruped.
2. A creature used as livestock; a domesticated animal.
  - c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 6, recto, lines 198-199; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 12:
    
    Hit tidde after on a time · as tellus our bokes / as þis bold barn his beſ tes · blybeliche keped […]
    
    Afterwards, as our books record, it happened one day that / while this brave child was peacefully looking after his animals […]
An evil being; a demon or monster.
A beast; a powerful fantastic or mythological creature.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:7, folio 118, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe 's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  
  ⁊ þe firſ te beeſte .· liyk a lioun / ⁊ þe ſecounde beeſte .· lijk a calf / ⁊ þe þꝛidde beeſte .· hauynge a face as of a man / ⁊ þe four þe beeſte .· liyk an egle fleynge
  
  And the first beast [was] like a lion; and the second beast [was] like a calf; and the third beast had a face like a human; and the fourth beast [was] like an eagle flying.
A person who is merciless or unforgiving.
A simpleton; an ignorant individual.