Definition of "semibarbarous" []

• Half barbarous; not fully civilised. (adjective)

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• "Nothing short of a semibarbarous public opinion would permit them to exist."
• "It has been the destiny of the government of the East India Company to suggest the true theory of the government of a semibarbarous dependency by a civilised country, and after having done this, to perish."
• "The cattle-farms or _hatos_ of the Plains are owned, for the most part, by the Creole residents of the cities which dot their outskirts, but are inhabited only by the semibarbarous _hateros_, who attend to the few requirements of the stock, and slaughter the annual supply."