Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Half-civilized.

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  • adjective Half barbarous.

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  • adjective Half barbarous; not fully civilised.

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ barbarous

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Examples

  • Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It has been the destiny of the government of the East India Company to suggest the true theory of the government of a semibarbarous dependency by a civilised country, and after having done this, to perish.

    Representative Government 2002

  • Yet they should hardly surprise one among a semibarbarous nation, which does nothing like other peoples, and which deems itself authorised to place the censer in the hands of its monarch, and its monarch in the hands of the headsman.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The cattle-farms or _hatos_ of the Plains are owned, for the most part, by the Creole residents of the cities which dot their outskirts, but are inhabited only by the semibarbarous _hateros_, who attend to the few requirements of the stock, and slaughter the annual supply.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • If then the civilised Greeks of Asia and Athens habitually sacrificed men whom they regarded as incarnate gods, there can be no inherent improbability in the supposition that at the dawn of history a similar custom was observed by the semibarbarous Latins in the Arician Grove.

    Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece 1922

  • If then the civilised Greeks of Asia and Athens habitually sacrificed men whom they regarded as incarnate gods, there can be no inherent improbability in the supposition that at the dawn of history a similar custom was observed by the semibarbarous Latins in the Arician Grove.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

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