barbarous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

B'ARBAROUS, adjective Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners. Thou are a roman; be not barbarous 2. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as barbarous
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