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English
Etymology
From Latin bēluīnus (“animal, bestial; brutal”): see further at belluine.
Pronunciation
Adjective
beluine (comparative more beluine, superlative most beluine)
- Alternative spelling of belluine
1643, W S, “Part. 5. Of the Sacraments.”, in The Compleat Christian, and Compleat Armour and Armoury of a Christian, Fitting Him with All Necessary Furniture for that His Holy Profession: Or, The Doctrine of Salvation: , : Printed for the authour, →OCLC, section 2 (Of Baptisme), page 674:[…] 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: […]
1870 March–September, Henry Ward Beecher, “Beauty”, in The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. (Plymouth Pulpit; Series), New York, N.Y.: J. B. Ford & Company, , published 1871, →OCLC, page 91: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.
Latin
Adjective
bēluīne
- vocative masculine singular of bēluīnus