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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of barbarize.

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Examples

  • In the process the British created their national identity — as the special people of a small, beleaguered island — which compelled them to see their kin, the Americans, as a distinct people barbarized by their savage continent.

    1812 and All That: A New Country at War 2011

  • If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world.

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Barbarian tribes threatened the borders and, when they could not be driven out by force, they were allowed in as "federates" and provided soldiers for an increasingly barbarized army that had no interest in preserving the system except to maintain its pay and perks.

    Philip Giraldi: Neocon Ancient History 2008

  • Princes to whom union was destruction, and division strength, have been a canker at their root of nationality, and have barbarized their language; but the good that was in them ever, is in them yet, and a noble people may be, one day, raised up from these ashes.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Diabolical possessions and false miracles still inundated one-half of besotted and barbarized Europe.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Berlin academy conducted its transactions first in Latin, next and for many years to come in French, and one of its earliest presidents, a man of special competence, pronounced German to be a noble but frightfully barbarized tongue.

    Voltaire 2007

  • In those areas where the Romanized population was the strongest element, such as Italy and southern France, this custom was in effect a barbarized Roman law.

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • It was not just that the empire had been generally barbarized.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

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