barbarity

[Formed by analogy, as if from a Lat. bar bar it as. In Sp. barbaridad; Port. barbaridade.] 1. Absence of civilisation. 2. Cruelty, inhumanity. " treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi. 3. A barbarism in speech. [BARBARISM, No. 1.] "Next Petrarch follow'd, and in him we see What rhyme, improv'd in all its height, can be; At best a pleasing sound, and sweet barbarity ." Dryden. bar-bar-ize, v.t. & i. [In Sp. bar bar izar ; Port . barbarisar .] A. Transitive : To render barbarous. "Detested forms, that on the mind impre 'd, Corrupt, confound, and barbarize an age." IMG:content-1054.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Foreign, as opposed to Greek or Roman, but without any reflection on the humanity of the person to whom the term was applied. "And the barbarous people showed us no little kindne ,"- Acts xxvii. 2. Here the word barbarous is used partly in the sense I. 1, and partly in I. 2. 2. Uncivilised without education or refinement. "A barbarous country must be broken by war before it be capable of government; and when subdued, if it be not well planted, it will eftsoons return to barbarism."-Sir J. Davies: Ireland, "He left govern ours to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there.' -2 Maccabees v. 22. 3. Strange in conduct, cruel, inhuman. II. Of things: 1. Emanating from some other people than the Greeks and Romans, and inferior to what 436 the last-named cla ic nation would have produced. "Those who restored painting in Germany, not having those reliques of antiquity, retained that barbarous manner." -Dryden. 2. Such as might be expected to emanate from an uncivilised people or individual. Used (a) Of anything confused in sound or tumultuous. "When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, a es, apes, and dogs." Milton: Sonnet , xi. (b) Of anything untrained or uncultured. "What need I say more to you? What ear is so bar barous but hath heard of Am phial us?"-Sydney. 3. Savage, cruel, full of cruelty. "By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him."-Clarendon, "And barbarous climes, where violence prevails, And strength is lord of all; but gentle, kind, By culture tamed, by liberty refresh'd, And all her fruits by radiant truth matured." Cowper: Task , bk. i. bar-bar-ous-lý, adv . [Eng. barbarous ; -ly .] Like a barbarian; as a barbarian might be expected to do; in a barbarous manner. Specially : 11. Without knowledge, polish, or refinement. 2. Cruelly, inhumanly, savagely. (Used of persons or things.) "But yet you barbarously murdered him." Dryden: Spanish Friar, v. 2. IMG:content-1055.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] 3. Such misuse of words as might be expected from a foreigner; incorrectne in the use of words; impurity in idiom. "It is much degenerated as touching the purene of speech; being overgrown with barbarousne ."Brere wood. Bar-bar-ý, bar-bar-ý, s. & a. [In Sw., Dan., & Ger. Barbariet ; Dut. Barbarije ; Ger. Berbere i; Fr. Barbarie ; Ital. Barber i a ; from Lat. barbaria , a foreign country-i.e., one out of Italy. Or from Berber , the name given by the Arabs to the native inhabitants of North Africa before the Mohammedan conquest.] A. As substantive : 1. Geog. An extensive region in the north of Africa, comprising Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli to the north, with the Beled-ulJered, or Country of Dates, to the south of the Atlas mountains. 12. Ord. Lang. A Barbary horse; a barb. "They are ill-built, Pin-buttock'd, like your dainty barbaries , And weak i' the pasterns," Beaum. & Flet.: Wild goose Chace. B. As adjective: Pertaining to the region described under A. Barbary ape (or Magot ). A monkey -the Macacus Inuus , found in the north of BARBARY APE. Africa, and of which a colony exists on the Rock of Gibraltar. It is the only recent European quadrumanous animal. It is sometimes called the Magot, and is the species occasionally exhibited, when young, by showmen in the streets. When adult, it becomes much le controllable. It has a full and moderately long muzzle, hair of a greenish-gray colour, and a small tubercle in place of a tail. Barbary gum. The gum of the Acacia gummifera . The tree grows in Mogador, in Morocco. Barbary horse. A barb. [BARBARY, A. 2.]