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; 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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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.
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Sav"age (?; 48), v. t.
To make savage.
[R.]
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
South.
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