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BARBARIAN

Volume 2 · 50 words · 1778 Edition

a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to all who were not of their own country, or were not initiated in their language, manners, and customs.β€”In this sense, the word signified with them no more than foreigner; not signifying, as among us, a wild, rude, or uncivilized person.