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† ˈbarbar, a. and n. Obs.
Forms: 4–8 barbar, 6 -our, -ir, 8 -are.
[a. F. barbare (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. barbarus barbarous. In 16th c. occasionally in L. form; now superseded by barbarian and barbarous.]
A. n. = barbarian. (In later use Scotch.)
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xiv. 11, I schal be to him, to whom I schal speke, a barbar. c1590A. Hume Epist. G. Moncrief, The Barbar rude of Thrace or Tartarie. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. i. (1677) 5 Goths, Vandals, Franks, and other Barbars. 1723M'Ward Contend. Faith 349 (Jam.) Blood shed by these barbars and burriers.
(β) in Latin form barbarus.
1530Compend. olde Treat. (1863) 52 Barbarus is he that vnderstondyth not yt he readeth in his mother tonge. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Col. iii. 11 Neither Gentile nor Jewe..Barbarus or Sithian, bonde or free.
B. adj. = barbarous.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 10 To execute sic barbour lawes agane. 1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 16 Til excuse my barbir agrest termis. 1584Hudson Judith ii. (1613) 354 (D.) The barbare yock of Moab. a1726Vanbrugh False Fr. iii. i. (1730) 125 Barbare Jacinta cast your eyes On your poor Lopez e'er he dies. |