beluine

From Latin bēluīnus (“animal, bestial; brutal”): see further at belluine.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːljuˌaɪn/

beluine (comparative more beluine, superlative most beluine)

1. Alternative spelling of belluine
   • 1643, W[illiam] S[latyer], “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: […], [s.l.]: Printed for the authour, OCLC 228731541, 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; [Fourth] Series), New York, N.Y.: J. B. Ford & Company, […], published 1871, OCLC 811361634, 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.

bēluīne

1. vocative masculine singular of bēluīnus