| 释义 |
rebarbarize, v.|riːˈbɑːbəraɪz|
[re- 5 b.]
trans. To reduce again to barbarism. Also absol.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXV. 567 A love of military achievement, which tends to rebarbarize. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1808) II. 109 Nations can never take too many precautions against the possibility of being rebarbarized. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 104 If the object was to rebarbarise the country, the proposition..would be well calculated to attain that end.
Hence reˈbarbarizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 692 Destructive and re⁓barbarizing actions. 1807Hazlitt Pol. Ess. (1819) 406 The re-barbarising and the re-enslaving the country. |