a. and sb. Forms: 4 barbarik, 5 -yke, 6 -ike. [a. OF. barbarique (15th c.) of barbarous kind, in Wyclif perh. direct ad. L. barbaric-us, a. Gr. βαρβαρικός like a foreigner, f. βάρβαρος foreign, rude. See BARBAROUS and -IC.]
A. adj.
1. BARBAROUS 3, BARBARIAN a. 2.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, viii. 36. The peple barbaryke in whom they were subcombed.
c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Gd. Mann. (1570), F iij. A barbarike vilayne to play the oratour.
1513. St. Werburge (1848), 198. Barbarike nacions full of crudelite.
a. 1837. Colebrooke, Relig. & Philos. Hindus (1858), 201. Correct language and barbaric dialects.
1855. Prescott, Philip II. (1857), I. I. i. 2. The barbaric empires of Mexico and Peru.
2. Pertaining or proper to barbarians or their art; in the characteristic style of barbarians, as opposed to that of civilized countries or ages.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 1. Barbaric Pearl and Gold.
1711. Pope, Temp. Fame, 94. With diamond flaming, and Barbaric gold.
1813. Scott, Trierm., III. xx. Each maiden’s short barbaric vest.
1857. S. Osborn, Quedah, xvi. 212. On the parapet, there were many handsome and heavy guns, mounted on very barbaric carriages.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xviii. 284. Barbaric splendour of decoration.
3. = BARBAROUS 1, 2; BARBARIAN a. 1.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. xlxviii. VI. 167. Sending envoys to the Persian King and not to other barbaric powers.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), II. III. vii. 154. An inestimable present to a patrician, or an ex-consul, or a barbaric king.
† B. sb. A barbarian. Obs. rare.
1388. Wyclif, 1 Cor. xiv. 11. Y schal be to hym, to whom Y schal speke, a barbarik; and he … to me, schal be a barbarik.
C. Comb., as barbaric-speaking.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. ii. II. 354. Those many barbaric-speaking nations whom Herodotus believed to have changed their language and passed into Hellens.
