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Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

ss, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

To take away. [Obs.] Shall move you to bereave my life. Marlowe.

most degree or extent applicable to the case; under the most favorable circumstances; as, life is at best very short. -- For best, finally. [Obs.] "Those constitutions . . . are now established for best, and not to be mended." Milton. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- T…

To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Life development generally.

The investigation of life.

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

The written history of a person's life.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

The destruction of life.

Relating to the destruction of life.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

ychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

A view of life; that which gives such a view.

Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.