Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

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Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
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..
Worship :: Worship (a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.
Civilian :: Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
Savagism :: Savagism (n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness..
Barbarian :: Barbarian (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state..
Spirit :: Spirit (v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up..
Inurbane :: Inurbane (a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude.
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Not officious; not civil or attentive.
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..
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Architecture :: Architecture (n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture..
Retort :: Retort (v. t.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response..
Praemunire :: Praemunire (n.) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom..
Unpolicied :: Unpolicied (a.) Not having civil polity, or a regular form of government..
Storm :: Storm (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult..
Gerontes :: Gerontes (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority..
Theocrat :: Theocrat (n.) One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.
Civil :: Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable..
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