What is "barbarisms"

Usage examples of "barbarisms".

Such barbarisms were common enough to man's past, up through the twenty-first century, old calendar.

He turned his attention away from them, having no desire to learn the metho­dology of certain barbarisms.

Vast as are the advances of our Science and Art, may it not possibly prove on examination that we retain other old barbarisms beside the use of the astrological sign of Jupiter, with which we endeavor to insure good luck to our prescriptions?

In art and outside of it you will meet the same barbarisms that Ambroise Pare met with,--for men differ less from century to century than we are apt to suppose.

The grosser barbarisms in culture which I have to encounter, are more than enough for all my attentions at present.

Buckley hadn't heard much about the suppression of the Huguenots in the Languedoc, but that was probably only because the savagery had had to compete with barbarisms in the Germanies.

Not all of which barbarisms, by any means, had been the work of the indigenes themselves.

Besides these offences, there were other minor barbarisms too numerous to mention.

But for all that I would train a child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, according to the simplest and best creed I could disentangle from those barbarisms, and I would in every way try to keep up in young persons that standard of reverence for all sacred subjects which may, without any violent transition, grow and ripen into the devotion of later years.