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VANDALIAN.
Ajf. xli. IV. 146 The certain intelligence that the Vandal
[sc Gelimer] had fled to the inaccessible country of the
Moors. 184a Penny Cycl. XXIV. 366/1 The Slavonian
tribes were subject to the Teutonic Vandals, who are often
confounded with the Wends. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV.
58/a There does not seem to be in the story of the capture
Sf Rome by the Vandals any justification for the charge of
wilful and objectless destruction of public buildings.
85
tended barbarians—Gothic, Vandalish, Lombard,.. were in
reality the restorers and regenerators of the effete Roman
intellect.
Vandalism (vse-ndaliz'm). [a. F. vandalisme,
first used by Henri Gregoire, Bishop of Blois,
2. trans/. One who acts like a Vandal or barbarian
; a wilful or ignorant destroyer of anything
beautiful, venerable, or worthy of preservation.
1663 Gerbier Counsel 50 For who would Rob them but
Goths and Vandalls. 1709 Pope Ess. Crit. 696 At length
Erasmus.. Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barb'rous age,
And drove those holy Vandals [i.e. monks] off the stage.
1780 CowpER On Burning Ld. Mausfitiii's Library i The
Vandals of our Jsle..Have burnt to dust a nobler pile Than
ever Roman saw! 1801 Helen M, Williams Matin. ^
Opin. Fr. Rep. II. xxxv. 177 The monuments.. which have
escaped the fury of our modern Vandals [i.e. Jacobinsl.
a 1839 PRAED Points (1864) II. 189 A horrid Vandal,— but
his money Will buy a glorious coat of arms. 1895 Suffling
Latui of Broads 85 Stained glass, which those narrowminded
Vandals, the Puritans, took great pains to destroy.
B. adj, 1. Of or pertaining to the Vandals (or
a Vandal),
Vandal war^ the war waged by the Roman Empire against
the Vandals in Africa, 532-546.
1613 PURCHAS Pilgrimage (1614) 98 Procopius, in the
fourth booke of the Vandale Warre. 1781 Gibbon Decl. ^
F. xxxiii. ^1787) III. 346 The warlike tyrant is supposed to
have shed more Vandal blood by the hand of the executioner,
than in the field of battle. 1788 Ibid. xli. IV. 152 The
chariots of slate which had been used by the Vandal queen,
184a Penny CycL XXIV. 266/1 All the names of the Vandal
kings are Teutonic. 1879 Lumbv Introd. to ///;f(/^« (Rolls)
VII. p. XX, Gregory [VI] appealed to the emperor for help,
and when an excuse of the Vandal war was made by him,
the pope took the field himself against the robbers. i888
Encycl, Brit. XXIV. 58/2 The Vandal occupation of this
great city [i.e. Carthage], .lasted for ninety-four years.
2. Acting like a Vandal in the wilful or ignorant
destruction of things of beauty or historic interest;
recklessly or ruthlessly destructive; barbarous,
rude, uncultured,
1700 Drvden Prol. [FietcAer^s Pilgrim] 35 Our bold
Britton.. Invades the Psalms with Rhymes, and leaves no
room For any Vandal Hopkins yet to come. 1798 W. T.
Fitzgerald A/isc. Poems (1801) 99 Though Europe suffers,
to her foul disgrace, This second Inroad of the Vandal
Race. 1889 Science-Gossip XXV. 34 Vandal naturalists.
189a T. A. Cook Old Touraine (1894) II. 39 A certain
vandal senator .. irreparably destroyed a great part of the
old buildings.
3. Characterized by vandalism or lack of culture
vandalic, vandalistic.
175a H. Walpole Lett. (1846) 11. 443 Some good tombs
..,and a very Vandal one. 1857 Ld. Gkanville in Life
(1905) I. X. 260 They.. are against any Vandal destruction
of towns, palaces, eta 1865 Mary Howitt tr. /*. Bremer's
Greece ff Greeks II. xii, 24 Masses of marble fragments and
stones show what a work of Vandal desolation has been here;
Hence Vaiidalled pcu ppU.j over-run or devastated
by the Vandals.
1648 WiNVARD Midsummer.Mocn 4 The whole University
resembles Greece over-run by Turkes, or Italy Gotb'd and
Vandald.
Vanda'lian, a. rarg~\ [Cf. Vandal sd. i,
quot. 1842.] Wendish.
1730 /list. Litt. I. 435 We have now an entire Translation
of the Bible in the Vandalian Tongue.
Vandalic (vaend^'lik), a. Also 7 Vandallique.
[ad.L. Vandalic-us^i, Vandalus Vandal.
So F. vandaiique. In the 15th cent, translation of
Higden the form Wandalicai occurs.]
1. Characteristic of, resembling that of, the
Vandals ; barbarously or ignorantly destructive
vandalistic.
1666 Waterhousb Fir€ LotuioH 66 This late barrass of us
by a more than Gottish and Vandallique fire. 176J War*
BURTON Doct.Grace m. \\. Wks. 1788 IV. 704 Rash Divines
might be apt to charge this holy man.. with a brutal spite
to Reason,— and with more than Vandalic rage against
human Learning. x8oz Helen M. Williams Mann. 4-
Opin. Fr. Rep. I. xviiu 226 The vandalic fury that em*
ployed itself not only on the mutilation of statues, but
destroyed the paintings of the first masters. 1865 Ecclesiologist
XXVI. 371 Deliberate, we might say Vandalic demolition.
1887 F. R. Stockton Hundredth Matt xv, In his
vandalic operations Enoch had shown . . fiendish ingenuity.
b. Of persons : — Vandal a. 2.
184s Blackw. Mag. LI. 88 The cathedral itself is ordered
to be repaired, and unfortunately * c i793>] 1'he conduct or spirit characteristic of,
or attributed to, the Vandals in respect of culture ;
ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful
or venerable ; in weakened sense, barbarous,
ignorant, or inartistic treatment.
1798 Helen M. Williams Lett. France IV. 179 (lod.),
Those barbarous triumphs are passed and anarchy and vandalism
can return no more. x8oo W, Taylor in Monthly
Mag.Vlll. 68^ The writers, who bring against certain philosophic
innovaiionists a clamorous charge of Vandalism. 1848
Gallenga Italy 497 After several hours of that unavailing
Vandalism, which set houses and palaces on fire, they were
compelled to beat a retreat, a 1878 Sir G. Scott Led.
Archit. (1879) I, 35 Monuments, through the lapse of time
and the barbarous hand of modern Vandalism, become in
many cases.. decayed and mutilated.
b. An instance of this ; a vandalistic act.
i8Sa Sergt. Ballantine ExPer. xxii. 218 The vandalisms
that have changed the fair scene.. into its present shape.
Vandalistic (vsendali'stik), a. [f. Vandal j^.
+ -ISTIC.] Characterized by, given to, vandalism.
1854 Eraser's Mag. L. 205 The authorities are Vandalistic
enough to prohibit the sport. 1897 Naturalist 45 The
most vandalistic plant-grubber. xj)oo Westm. Gaz. 8 May
jo/i The natives.. betray a vandalistic disposition towards
the tablets and inscriptions,
Vandalization. [Cf. next.] The action of
rendering barbarous.
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag.^ VIU. 684 Events
thicken to accelerate the entire Vandalization of Europe.
Vandalize (vae-ndabiz), V, [f. Vandal sb, +
-IZE.] trans. To render Vandal in respect of culture
; to deal with or treat in a vandalistic manner.
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Ma^, VIU. 684 To vandalize
Europe then can have no other signification than to introduce
eastern Slavonian barbarians to domination over the
actual feats of culture and improvement. x8«i New Monthly
Ma^, U. 353 They are not only vandalized in style, but in
sentiment. 1S45 Ford Handbk. Spain i. 90 The noblest
monuments of art and piety have been vandalized.
Hence Va'ndalizing///. a,
1804 Fessenden Democracy l/nveiled (1B06) I. 123 Direct
their vandalizing ravages To make men like themselves,
mere savages. 183a Blackw. Mag, XXXI. 581 No. .vigilance.,
could disarm their rude followers of ferocious and
Vandalizing habits.
Vandalously, adv. rare-^, [f. Vandal s&.^
In a vandalistic manner.
1890 Tablet 6 Sept. 374 They were scandalously and
vandalously wrong when they reviled the Mother of God.
+ Vandelas. Obs. Forms: 6 vandelas, 7
-alas, -olose, -ulose. [See def.] A kind of strong
coarse canvas, used esp. for sails, manufactured in
the district of Brittany formerly called LeVendelais.
1571 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 137 For vandelas
Ixvij ells di.—Ixvij" vj*. 1573 Ibid. 167 For xx"« peeces of
Vandelas to cover the Banketting howse. i6ia Ledger A.
Halyburton (1867) 319 Vandolose or Vitrie canves the eln,
xs. 1640 in EntickZ,tf«