Results for civil

Definitions of civil:

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to the community: having the refinement of city bred people: polite: commercial, not military: lay, not ecclesiastical.

part of speech: adjective

Relating to the ordinary affairs and government of the people of any country, as civil rights and privileges, & c.; political as opposed to criminal; intestine as opposed to foreign; lay as distinguished from ecclesiastical; ordinary life as distinguished from military; courteous; gentle and obliging; affable; kind; polite.

part of speech: adverb

Civilly.

Usage examples for civil:

• Difficulties of this kind, from want of knowledge of the civil and social circumstances of this people may frequently occur. "History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China", J. V. N. Talmage

• The men he addressed were civil "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith

• 2. It would be for the good order of the civil state. "The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut", M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

• At least they always gave me a civil answer. "A Boy's Voyage Round the World", The Son of Samuel Smiles