Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Half-barbarous; partly civilized: as, semibarbaric display.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Half barbarous or uncivilized.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
barbaric .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On Mars, Barron finds himself among a group of semibarbaric drylanders.
"Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009
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On Mars, Barron finds himself among a group of semibarbaric drylanders.
"Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009
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On Mars, Barron finds himself among a group of semibarbaric drylanders.
Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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On Mars, Barron finds himself among a group of semibarbaric drylanders.
Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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On Mars, Barron finds himself among a group of semibarbaric drylanders.
"Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009
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Lifting back the lid of one of the small metal-banded wooden chests that floated like carracks among the coins, he let his gaze linger on its contents: military decorations and awards wrought in the semibarbaric and florid style of the Chlengguu.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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There was no anthropologist aboard to study the semibarbaric civilization of the natives; there was no biologist to study the alien flora and fauna.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957
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The envoys referred to were notable for their rich, semibarbaric dress, but not one of them was like Ibrahim.
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The admirable work of the friars in dispelling the old vendetta custom is one of the chief factors in the evolution of this semibarbaric race.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Born and bred to semibarbaric superstitions, they had long discarded these, some for the freethinking attitude of the
The Ancient East 1894
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