a. and sb. Obs. Forms: 4–8 barbar, 6 -our, -ir, 8 -are. [a. F. barbare (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. barbarus BARBAROUS. In 16th c. occasionally in L. form; now superseded by barbarian and barbarous.]
A. sb. = BARBARIAN. (In later use Scotch.)
1382. Wyclif, 1 Cor. xiv. 11. I schal be to him, to whom I schal speke, a barbar.
c. 1590. A. Hume, Epist. G. Moncrief. The Barbar rude of Thrace or Tartarie.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., I. (1677), 5. Goths, Vandals, Franks, and other Barbars.
a. 1687. R. McWard, Earnest Contend. for Faith (1723), 349 (Jam.). If thou would not be drowned in thy own Blood, shed by the Sword of these Barbars and Burriers, let the Bleeding of thy Soul be seen by Him.
β. in Latin form barbarus.
1530. Compend. olde Treat. (1863), 52. Barbarus is he that vnderstondyth not ye he readeth in his mother tonge.
1549. Coverdale, Erasm. Par. Col. iii. 11. Neither Gentile nor Jewe … Barbarus or Sithian, bonde or free.
B. adj. = BARBAROUS.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 10. To execute sic barbour lawes agane.
1549. Compl. Scot., Prol. 16. Til excuse my barbir agrest termis.
1584. Hudson, Judith, ii. (1613), 354 (D.). The barbare yock of Moab.
a. 1726. Vanbrugh, False Fr., III. i. (1730), 125. Barbare Jacinta cast your eyes On your poor Lopez e’er he dies.
