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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Barbar, n. [Rare ME. barbar (Wyclif), OF. barbare, L. barbarus: see Barbar,a.] A barbarian.c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rom. i. 14 (to Grekis and to barbaris). 1533 Boece iv. v. 132.
Be this way ... to the folie attemptatis of barbaris suld be satisfyit 1587-99 Hume 70/59 (the barbar rude of Thrace). a1639 Spotsw. Hist. i. 5 (the Gothes, Vandals, Franks, and other Barbars).c1680 R. McWard Contendings 349:
Ah Britain! - if thou, and thy Houses, and Inhabitants would not be . . . drowned in thy own Blood, shed by . . . these Barbars and Burriers, let the Bleeding of thy Soul be seen by Him.
