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BARBARIAN

Volume 3 · 51 words · 1810 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 cuftoms. In this fenfe, the word signified with them no more than foreigner; not signifying, as among us, a wild, rude, or uncivilized perfon.