a. Also 7 Vandallique. [ad. L. Vandalic-us, f. Vandalus VANDAL. So F. vandalique. In the 15th-cent. translation of Higden the form Wandalical occurs.]
1. Characteristic of, resembling that of, the Vandals; barbarously or ignorantly destructive; vandalistic.
1666. Waterhouse, Fire London, 66. This late harrass of us by a more than Gottish and Vandallique fire.
1762. Warburton, Doct. Grace, III. ii. Wks. 1788, IV. 704. Rash Divines might be apt to charge this holy man … with a brutal spite to Reason,—and with more than Vandalic rage against human Learning.
1801. Helen M. Williams, Mann. & Opin. Fr. Rep., I. xviii. 226. The vandalic fury that employed itself not only on the mutilation of statues, but destroyed the paintings of the first masters.
1865. Ecclesiologist, XXVI. 377. Deliberate, we might say Vandalic demolition.
1887. F. R. Stockton, Hundredth Man, xv. In his vandalic operations Enoch had shown … fiendish ingenuity.
b. Of persons: = VANDAL a. 2.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LI. 88. The cathedral itself is ordered to be repaired, and unfortunately ‘beautified,’ by the most Vandalic architect Paris ever was afflicted with.
2. Of or pertaining to, consisting of, the Vandals.
a. 1727. Newton, Obs. Daniel (1733), I. v. 34. The Burgundians, a Vandalic nation, were between the Vistula and the southern fountain of the Boristhenes.
1802. Sibbald, Chron. S. P., IV. p. ix. The Saxons, of Vandalic origin.
1838. G. S. Faber, Inquiry, 477. Passing thence into Germany, he long sojourned among the Vandalic States, and finally settled in Bohemia.
1853. Kingsley, Hypatia, II. xv. 375. Barbarians of the Vandalic race,… made insolent by success.
