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Barbarous   /bˈɑrbərəs/   Listen
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Barbarous  adj.  
1.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
2.
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. (Obs.) "Barbarous gold."
3.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. "By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him."
4.
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. "A barbarous expression"
Synonyms: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.






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"Barbarous" Quotes from Famous Books



... barrel and was attacked by dogs. Yielding at last to superior numbers, it was dragged or drawn out. The badger was then set free and permitted to return to its tub until it recovered from the effects of the struggle, after which it was again baited. It had to submit to this barbarous treatment several times a day. The verb "to badger," now often applied to persons, was originally used in direct reference ...
— Little Folks (November 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... it, was a barbarous country; and although subjugated and long held by that people, they seem to have left it nearly as uncultivated and illiterate as they found it. 'No magnificent remains,' says Macaulay, 'of Latian porches and aqueducts are ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... this admonition denounced upon zeal towards God's cause, also towards those in whom appeareth disposition honourable unto this action of planting Christian people and religion in those remote and barbarous nations of America (unto whom I wish all happiness), I will now proceed to make relations briefly, yet particularly, of our voyage undertaken with Sir Humfrey Gilbert, begun, continued, and ...
— Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland • Edward Hayes

... under the sense of felt necessity, whereby Catholics were laid under disabilities, as to the enjoyment of those privileges, which they saw to be inconsistent with the peace of the state and safety of the Protestant religion, on account of the barbarous massacres committed by Catholics upon Protestants, and the numerous hostile attempts made to overturn, by violence, the Protestant religion within these lands, as proceeding from the sanguinary spirit of Popery. The modern plea set up in favor of those privileges being ...
— Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive • The Reformed Presbytery

... Cincinnatus, twenty years after the establishment of the republic, was possessed of FIVE HUNDRED of the HUMAN SPECIES IN SLAVERY, enjoying the fruits of their labor without remuneration, or even the consolations of religious instruction—that he retained the barbarous usages of the feudal system, and kept men in livery—and that he still affected to be the friend of the Christian religion, of civil liberty, and moral equality—and to be, withal, a disinterested, ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing


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