LekhoriLekhoriNot classical or pure.
He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
Uncivilized, uncultured.
[T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
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