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Civilize   /sˈɪvəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Civilize  v. t.  (past & past part. civilized; pres. part. civilizing)  
1.
To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. "Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue."
2.
To admit as suitable to a civilized state. (Obs. or R.) "Civilizing adultery."
Synonyms: To polish; refine; humanize.





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"Civilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... give those Names promiscuously to All that, having studied Human Nature, have endeavour'd to civilize Men, and render them more and more tractable, either for the Ease of Governours and Magistrates, or else for the Temporal Happiness of Society in general. I think of all Inventions of this Sort, the same which told [4] ...
— An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War • Bernard Mandeville
... had to let ideals wait. They submitted to conditions because they were afraid that if they did not man would take to the woods and become again a wild barbarian. They were flattered by the fact that men liked them as they were, and they failed to realize that their power to civilize was God-given. ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... better his own condition. Every animal that man has taken from its native haunts and domesticated, he has efficiently improved. He has even produced more marvelous results by the application of the same principles to the vegetable kingdom. In his haste to civilize himself, however, he has failed to apply the principles that are essential to self-preservation. It is regrettable, also, to know that, while the government has spent many thousands of dollars in sending out literature ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague, M.D.
... Book V., chap. viii. How the Yankee crusade against the New Netherlands was baffled by the sudden outbreak of witchcraft among the people of the East ... Book VII., chap. ii. How Peter Stuyvesant labored to civilize the community. How he was a great promoter of holydays. How he instituted kissing on New Year's Day.... Chap. iii. How troubles thicken on the province. How it is threatened by the Helderbergers,—the Merrylanders, and the ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin
... insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debaucher ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou


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