Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state..

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Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..
Gown :: Gown (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military..
Disoblige :: Disoblige (v. t.) To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
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..
-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..
Police :: Police (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison..
Conge :: Conge (n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.
Discourtesy :: Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..
Humanize :: Humanize (v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..
Fair :: Fair (adv.) Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
Pressure :: Pressure (n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization..
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Jurisconsult :: Jurisconsult (n.) A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.
Frontier :: Frontier (n.) That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization..
Pretor :: Pretor (n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.
Incivilly :: Incivilly (adv.) Uncivilly.
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