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barbarously, adv.|ˈbɑːbərəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a barbarous manner: a. as to speech.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xiii, Whiche..speake the most barberously that they can imagine. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 257 The foulest vice in language is to speake barbarously. 1667Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy in Arber Eng. Garner III. 563 New languages..barbarously mingled with the Latin. 1855Liddell & Scott Gr. Lex., βαρβαροϕωνέω, to speak Greek barbarously.
b. as to social or intellectual condition, culture, or art.
1552Huloet, Barbarouslye or rudelye. 1657Davenant Rutland Ho. (1673) 348 Loving so barbarously the uncleanly ease of his own life. a1761Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 28 In the afternoon, went to hear ‘Samson’ murdered most barbarously.
c. as to cruelty.
1611Bible 2 Macc. xv. 2 O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously. 1712Addison Spect. No. 483 ⁋2 Her mother used one of her nieces very barbarously. 1800Coleridge To Wedgewood Jan., It is most barbarously cold. |