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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Barbarous, -arus, a. [e.m.E. barbarouse (1526). -arous. L. barbarus. Cf. Barbar a.]

1. Rude, uncultivated, illiterate.1560 Rolland Seven S. Prol. 67 (with barbarus termes). 1596 Dalr. I. 97 (sum barbarous wryteris).

2. Uncivilized, savage.1558-66 Knox II. 408 (ane barbarous creweltie). 1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 140 (thir mischevus and barbarus crewelteis). a1585 Maitl. Q. lxvi. 79 (mair cruell then tyran barbarous). 1591 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 52 (in barbarus maner). 1604 Shetland Sheriff Ct. 131 (out of the Hilandis and wtheris barbarous partis). 1622-6 Bisset II. 292/18 (the barbarus nationis).

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