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One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.

Alt. of Vandalic

One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.

Alt. of Vandalic

One of a Teutonic race once inhabiting the south shores of the Baltic, noted for their fierceness and destructiveness, especially of works of art, when plundering Rome in the fifth century: vandal, one who wilfully destroys or injures anything beautiful, especially a work of art.

One of a fierce race in N. Germany who sacked Rome in 455: any one hostile to arts or literature: a barbarian.

One of a race of fierce barbarians; any one hostile to arts or letters; barbarian.

One of a race that in the fifth century ravaged Gaul and pillaged Rome.

Any ruthless plunderer or destroyer.

Vandal, vandalic.

One of a fierce northern nation that invaded Rome in the 5th century, mutilating and destroying the works of art collected in the city; any one who in a like spirit destroys or would destroy the monuments of art or literature.

One of a barbarous race, inhabiting the southern shores of the Baltic, which invaded the Roman empire in the fifth century, noted for their fierceness and their indiscriminate destruction of the monuments of art and the productions of literature; one who destroys any monument of art or literature; one hostile to the arts or literature; a barbarian.

Pert. to or resembling the Vandals; rude; barbarous.

n. One of the most barbarous of the northern nations that invaded Rome in the 5th century notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature; — hence, one hostile to the arts and literature; one who is ignorant and barbarous.