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.
© Webster 1913.
Bar*ba"ri*an, a.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
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