Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

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Civil :: Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable..
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..
Atimy :: Atimy (n.) Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights.
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures;
Courtesy :: Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.
Misbehavior :: Misbehavior (n.) Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct..
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.
Semibarbarism :: Semibarbarism (n.) The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
Inurbane :: Inurbane (a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude.
Civil :: Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Civilian :: Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
Temporal :: Temporal (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts..
Centumvir :: Centumvir (n.) One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections..
Civilian :: Civilian (n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical..
Synod :: Synod (n.) An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
Reconstruction :: Reconstruction (n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War..
Dixie :: Dixie (n.) A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War..
Civilian :: Civilian (n.) One skilled in the civil law.
Uncivilization :: Uncivilization (n.) The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day
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