Sav"age (?; 48), v. t. To make savage. [R.]
Its
bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Southey.
Sav"age , n.
1. A human
being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
untaught, uncivilized, or
without cultivation
of mind or
manners.
2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
Sav"age (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L.
silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See
Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]
1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
2.
Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage
beasts.
Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
Dryden. 3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
E. D. Griffin. 4.
Characterized by cruelty;
barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a
savage spirit.
Syn.
-- Ferocious; wild;
uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized;
unpolished; rude; brutish;
brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious.
See Ferocious.
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