Bar*ba"ri*an (?), n. [See Barbarous.]

1.

A foreigner.

[Historical]

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Cor. xiv. 11.

2.

A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

3.

A person destitute of culture.

M. Arnold.

4.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.

"Thou fell barbarian."

Philips.

 

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Bar*ba"ri*an, a.

Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

 

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