Part 907

<h1>Barbarity</h1> <Xpage=118>

<hw>Bar*bar"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Barbarities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[From <er>Barbarous</er>.]</ety> <def> The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.</def>

<blockquote>Treating Christians with a <b>barbarity</b> which would have shocked the very Moslem. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A barbarous or cruel act.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Barbarism; impurity of speech.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Barbarize</h1> <Xpage=118>

<hw>Bar"ba*rize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Barbarized</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Barbarizing</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To become barbarous.</def>

<blockquote>The Roman empire was <b>barbarizing</b> rapidly from the time of Trajan. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.</def>

<blockquote>The ill habit . . . of wretched <b>barbarizing</b> against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Barbarize</h1> <Xpage=118>

<hw>Bar"ba*rize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>barbariser</ets>, LL. <ets>barbarizare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To make barbarous.</def>

<blockquote>The hideous changes which have <b>barbarized</b> France. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Barbarous</h1> <Xpage=118>

<hw>Bar"ba*rous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>barbarus</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. <ets>balbus</ets> stammering, Skr. <ets>barbara</ets> stammering, outlandish. Cf. <er>Brave</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; <as>as, a <ex>barbarous</ex> people; a <ex>barbarous</ex> country.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Barbarous</b> gold. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.</def>

<blockquote>By their <b>barbarous</b> usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>barbarous</b> expression <i>G. Campbell.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See <er>Ferocious</er>.</syn>

<h1>Barbarously</h1> <Xpage=118>

<hw>Bar"ba*rous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a barbarous manner.</def>

<h1>Barbarousness</h1> <Xpage=118>