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Vandalic, a.|vænˈdælɪk|
Also 7 Vandallique.
[ad. L. Vandalic-us, f. Vandalus Vandal. So F. vandalique. In the 15th cent. translation of Higden the form Wandalical occurs.]
1. Characteristic of, resembling that of, the Vandals; barbarously or ignorantly destructive; vandalistic.
1666Waterhouse Fire London 66 This late harrass of us by a more than Gottish and Vandallique fire. 1762Warburton Doct. Grace iii. ii. Wks. 1788 IV. 704 Rash Divines might be apt to charge this holy man..with a brutal spite to Reason,—and with more than Vandalic rage against human Learning. 1801Helen M. Williams Mann. & Opin. Fr. Rep. I. xviii. 226 The vandalic fury that employed itself not only on the mutilation of statues, but destroyed the paintings of the first masters. 1865Ecclesiologist XXVI. 271 Deliberate, we might say Vandalic demolition. 1887F. R. Stockton Hundredth Man xv, In his vandalic operations Enoch had shown..fiendish ingenuity.
b. Of persons: = Vandal a. 2.
1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 88 The cathedral itself is ordered to be repaired, and unfortunately ‘beautified’, by the most Vandalic architect Paris ever was afflicted with.
2. Of or pertaining to, consisting of, the Vandals.
a1727Newton Obs. Daniel (1733) I. v. 34 The Burgundians, a Vandalic nation, were between the Vistula and the southern fountain of the Boristhenes. 1802Sibbald Chron. S.P. IV. p. ix, The Saxons, of Vandalic origin. 1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 477 Passing thence into Germany, he long sojourned among the Vandalic States, and finally settled in Bohemia. 1853Kingsley Hypatia II. xv. 375 Barbarians of the Vandalic race,..made insolent by success. |