Barbarously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a barbarous manner: a. as to speech.

1531.  Elyot, Gov., I. xiii. Whiche … speake the most barberously that they can imagine.

1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 257. The foulest vice in language is to speake barbarously.

1667.  Dryden, Ess. Dram. Poesy, in Arb., Garner, III. 563. New languages … barbarously mingled with the Latin.

1855.  Liddell & Scott, Gr. Lex., Βαρβαροφωνέω, to speak Greek barbarously.

  b.  as to social or intellectual condition, culture or art.

1552.  Huloet, Barbarouslye or rudelye.

1657.  Davenant, Rutland Ho. (1673), 348. Loving so barbarously the uncleanly ease of his own life.

a. 1761.  Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1861), III. 28. In the afternoon, went to hear ‘Samson’ murdered most barbarously.

  c.  as to cruelty.

1611.  Bible, 2 Macc. xv. 2. O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 483, ¶ 2. Her mother used one of her nieces very barbarously.

1800.  Coleridge, To Wedgewood, Jan. It is most barbarously cold.