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Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style.

nce or fable; fanciful. Romanesque style (Arch.), that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.…

Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.

astate; to ravage. The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison.

Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

. [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. Denham. Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.

roducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

cience, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

Which your polite and terser gallants practice, I re-refine the court, and civilize Their barbarous natures. Massinger.

oquence. At length, Erasmus, that great injured name, . . . Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.

being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. Ray.

Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized. Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. Burke.

Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.

To render inhuman or barbarous. J. Barlow.

One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.