Barbarous vs Maddened - What's the difference?
barbarous | maddened | Related terms |
Not classical or pure.
uncivilized, uncultured
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
(madden)
To make angry.
To make insane; to inflame with passion.
(obsolete) To become furious.
* {{quote-book, year=1855, title=Westward Ho!, author=Charles Kingsley
, passage=The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened , his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1870, title=Irish folk lore, author=John O'Hanlon, page=71
, passage=And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"}}
Barbarous is a related term of maddened.
As an adjective barbarous
is not classical or pure.As a verb maddened is
(madden).barbarous
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* (obsolete) barbarouseAdjective
(en adjective)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - (1673)
Derived terms
* barbarously * barbarousnessmaddened
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*madden
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