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A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs.] Swift.

The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

on of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything Bagehot. To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. The Century.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.

Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

Lawyerlike; legal. [R.] "Leguleian barbarism." De Quincey. -- n.

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Sprat.

To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state or condition of being recrudescent. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste. Duke of Argyll.

te of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relaps into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

f a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more. Johnson.

The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.

of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.