[f. as prec. + -ING2.] a. Acting or speaking as barbarians. b. Reducing to barbarism. c. Becoming barbarous.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. 203. These barbarizing English were … endeared to the interest of Ireland.
1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., I. 288. Barbarous and barbarizing warfare.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. iii. 99. The barbarising Augustan historian.
1859. Kingsley, Misc., II. 194. A stationary, if not a barbarizing system of society.
1874. Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, i. 5. Disintegrating and barbarising forces.
