Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state..

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Discourteous :: Discourteous (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Semibarbarian :: Semibarbarian (a.) Half barbarous; partially civilized.
Jurist :: "Jurist (a.) One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law..
Officeholder :: Officeholder (n.) An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman..
Rank :: Rank (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank..
Cherokees :: Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes..
Seven-thirties :: Seven-thirties (n. pl.) A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded..
Court :: Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical..
State :: State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6..
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Incivilities :: Incivilities (pl. ) of Incivilit.
Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years..
Transgress :: Transgress (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral..
Mannerliness :: Mannerliness (n.) The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
Pioneer :: Pioneer (n.) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform..
Discourtesy :: Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..
Civil :: Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state..
Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..
Unpolicied :: Unpolicied (a.) Not having civil polity, or a regular form of government..
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