Barbarize
(Bar"ba*rize) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing ]
1. To become barbarous.
The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
De Quincey. 2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
Milton. Barbarize
(Bar"ba*rize) v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.] To make barbarous.
The hideous changes which have barbarized France.
Burke.
Barbarous
(Bar"ba*rous) a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ba`rbaros, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin
to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave, a.]
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.
Dryden.
3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him.
Clarendon.
4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
A barbarous expression
G. Campbell.
Syn. — Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.
Barbarously
(Bar"ba*rous*ly), adv. In a barbarous manner.
Barbarousness
(Bar"ba*rous*ness), n. The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
Barbary
(Bar"ba*ry) n. [Fr. Ar. Barbar the people of Barbary.] The countries on the north coast of
Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.
Barbary ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innuus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey
inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.
Barbastel
(Bar"ba*stel`) n. [F. barbastelle.] (Zoöl.) A European bat with hairy lips.
Barbate
(Bar"bate) a. [L. barbatus, fr. barba beard. See Barb beard.] (Bot.) Bearded; beset with
long and weak hairs. Gray.
Barbated
(Bar"ba*ted) a. Having barbed points.
A dart uncommonly barbated.
T. Warton.
Barbecue
(Bar"be*cue) n. [In the language of Indians of Guiana, a frame on which all kinds of flesh and
fish are roasted or smoke-dried.]
