a. Obs. [f. BARBARY, F. barbarie, or L. barbar, -ia, -ies + -OUS.] = BARBAROUS.
1570. Holinshed, Scot. Chron., I. 25. Barbarious and miserable creatures.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., xvii. (1821), 663. The barbarious tyranny hee exercised upon his owne Countriemen.
1762. Goldsm., Cit. W., xi. Barbarious nations.