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Civil
CIVIL, a.
1. Relating to the community, or to the policy and government of the citizens and subjects of a state; as in the phrases, civil rights, civil government, civil privileges, civil war, civil justice. It is opposed to criminal; as a civil suit, a suit between citizens alone; whereas a criminal process is between the state and a citizen. It is distinguished from ecclesiastical, which respects the church; and from military, which respects the army and navy.
2. Relating to any man as a member of a community; as civil power, civil rights, the power or rights which a man enjoys as a citizen.
3. Reduced to order, rule and government; under a regular administration; implying some refinement of manners; not savage or wild; as civil life; civil society.
4. Civilized; courteous; complaisant; gentle and obliging; well-bred; affable; kind; having the manners of a city, as opposed to the rough, rude, coarse manners of a savage or clown.
Where civil speech and soft persuasion hung.
5. Grave; sober; not gay or showy.
Till civil suited morn appear.
6. Compaisant; polite; a popular colloquial use of the word.
7. Civil death, in law, is that which cuts off a man from civil society, or its rights and benefits, as banishment, outlawry, excommunication, entering into a monastery, etc., as distinguished from natural death.
8. Civil law, in a general sense, the law of a state, city or country; but in an appropriate sense, the Roman empire, comprised in the Institutes, Code and Digest of Justinian and the Novel Constitutions.
9. Civil list, the officers of civil government, who are paid from the public treasury; also, the revenue appropriated to support the civil government.
The army of James II was paid out of his civil list.
10. Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens, not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.
11. Civil war, a war between people of the same state or city; opposed to foreign war.
12. Civil year, the legal year, or annual account of time which a government appoints to be used in its own dominions, as distinguished from the natural year, which is measured by the revolution of the heavenly bodies.
13. Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture; as private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
civil appears in definitions for these words:
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Ab Abate Abdicate Ability Abintestate Absolution Absolve Abuse Acceptable Accretion Action Actor Actuary Adar Ademption Adjure Administrator Adult Adulterine Adultery Advocate Affability Affectedly Aga Aggrieve Aggrieved Alcaid Allay Amman Antecessor Aphorism Arbiter Architecture Archon Attach Attachment Attention Attorney Authority Barbarian Barbarous Bastard Bed Bench Bill Birthright Bissextile Blind Blunt Bluntly Bow Bumbailiff Cadi Calif Can Canoe Cap Capitulary Card Cast Cavil Ceremonious Ceremony Cession Challenge Chancellor Chivalry Circumduct Civic Civil Civilian Civilist Civility Civilization Civilize Civilized Civilizer Civilizing Civilly Clause Cognation Cognizance Cold Colleague Collegatary Comity Commerce Commission Common Commons Commonweal Community Complacence Complacent Complaisance Complaisant Complaisantly Complaisantness Compliant Compliment Complimental Complimentally Condescend Conduct Conge Constable Constitution Convention Convert Correspondency Court Courteous Courteously Courteousness Courtesy Courtliness Courtship Criminal Cringe Cultivate Cultivated Cultivating Cup Curry Dance Day Dead Death Debonnair Decree Delegation Delicacy Derogate Determination Devoir Difference Dignity Diocese Disease Dissolution Doctor Draw Drink Due Embolismal Embroil Empower Empty Engineer Enjoyment Enslave Equestrian Escheat Evil Example Exchange Exheredation F Fair Fair-spoken Festival Feud Fleer Fleering Form Freedom Gallant Gallantry Gentile Gentleman Gentlewoman Gentry Germ Goodman Goody Gown Gradation Grade Guilt Hang Harsh Honor Hunting Idea Imban Incivil Incline Incumbent Indecorum Induct Induction Inestimable Inferior Innovate Inofficious Insurgent Insurrection Interchange Intercourse Invest Judge Judgment Jurist Jury Lacerate Law Leer Levitical Libel Liberty Lieutenant Limitation List Location Love Magistrate Mannerliness Mannerly Manners Manorial Mark Marriage Marshal Martial Massacer Meddle Medium Meliorate Menace Midst Ministry Mouthhonor Municipal Musket Mutiny Negation Negboor Neglect Neighbor Neighborly Nisan Nobility Notice Novel Obligation Obliging Obligingly Obligingness Offend Office Officer Originate Outrage Outward Palladium Pandect Pardon Paritor Pay Peace Peace-officer Peculate Pension Petit Piously Policy Polish Political Polity Poll Power Pragmatic Precedence Press Prevaricate Prevarication Privilege Probate Process Proctor Promise Promote Property Prosecute Prothonotary Provost Punishment Pupil Puritan Quiet Ranging Recommendation Reduce Refinement Rehabilitate Remedy Right Rule Sacred Salary Savage Secular Semi-barbarian Semi-savage Sentence Sequester Sequestration Sergeant Servant Set Sex Sherif Soft Soften Softness Spirit Spy Squeeze Stage State Station Stifle Storm Suability Subject Subrogation Sue Suit Sweetness Tame Taming Temporal Tender Test Thammuz Tiar Tisri Title Tranquilize Transaction Transgress Transmit Treason Trial Triplication Tutor Tutorage Uncivil Uncomplaisant Uncourtly Uncultivated Underproportioned Unmannerliness Unpolicied Unpolite Unruly Urbane Urbanity Urbanize Use Usucaption Valuation Verdict Vice-admiral Violence Visit Visitor Warrant Weave Welfare Wield Woman Worship Worshiped Writ Wrong Year
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