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semi-barˈbarian
[semi- 2; cf. L. sēmibarbarus.]
One who is half-barbarian.
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 4 The rude and simple Semi⁓barbarians of Lycaonia. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 204 The sensual pleasures are the only study of the semi⁓barbarian. 1853G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand x, Those semi-barbarians of the north.
So ˌsemibarˈbarianism, -barˈbaric a., -ˈbarbarism, -ˈbarbarous a.
1828Examiner 122/2 An intention on the part of the Sultan to proceed to extremities in the usual headlong style of haughty..*semi-barbarianism.
1864Webster, *Semibarbaric,..as semibarbaric display.
1817Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. iv. 164 The age of false refinement, which is that of *semibarbarism.
1798A. F. M. Willich Elements Crit. Philos. p. cxxii, The ancient Britons were as little acquainted with the art of writing, as any of the rude and *semi-barbarous nations of those times. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. x. 437 Had the Hindus remained fixed from the earliest ages in the semibarbarous state. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. p. xxv, Its Latin is rude and semibarbarous in grammar and spelling. |