semibarbarianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

semibarbarian (plural semibarbarians)

1. (dated) Someone partly civilized.
   • 1848, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, in Manifesto of the Communist Party‎:

     The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

参照

• “semibarbarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.