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Civil   /sˈɪvəl/   Listen
Civil

adjective
1.
Applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military.
2.
Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others.  Synonym: polite.
3.
Of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state.  "Civil strife" , "Civil disobedience" , "Civil branches of government"
4.
Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals.  Synonym: civic.  "Civil liberty" , "Civic duties" , "Civic pride"
5.
(of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life.  "A civil day begins at mean midnight"
6.
Of or in a condition of social order.



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"Civil" Quotes from Famous Books



... election's over. Don't look so down in the mouth, I shan't keep you long, just a snack's all I want, and to stamp my feet a bit, which they're uncommonly cold, and then you can go back to the sweet pretty thing that fetched you to do the civil—oh, I saw it all! what a pity she's the other side, isn't it? what a canvasser she'd make with that smile . . . well, well, there's many a pretty Tory lady married a Radical before this and changed ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker

... we but allow Christianity to throw its broad shield over them. But if we so act as to array the Bible against our social economy, they must fall. Nothing ever yet stood long against Christianity. Those who say that religious instruction is inconsistent with our peculiar civil polity, are the worst enemies of that polity. They would drive religious men from its defence. Sooner or later, if these views prevail, they will separate the religious portion of our community from the rest, ...
— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown

... Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim to all whom it may concern that a state of war exists between the United States and the Imperial German Government, and I do specially direct all officers, civil or military, of the United States that they exercise vigilance and zeal in the discharge of the duties incident to such a state of war, and I do, moreover, earnestly appeal to all American citizens that they, in loyal devotion to their country, ...
— In Our First Year of the War - Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, - March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 • Woodrow Wilson

... is interesting," he remarked. "While I don't know how long it takes for a strain to die out, there must have been a large civil population living near the Wall, and we know that the characteristics of the Teutonic peoples who followed the Romans still remain. On the other hand, some of the followers were vexillaries, from the bounds of the Empire; Gauls, ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... end of the Civil War a movement for the rationalisation of religion had begun to make itself felt. It was in full force in the time of the Revolution of 1688. It had not altogether spent itself by the middle of the eighteenth century. The movement has borne the name of Deism. In so far as it had ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore


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