Word Meanings - CIVICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principle of civil government.

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• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• CIVILIZED
  Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.
• CIVILIZE
  1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• CIVIL
  1. 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. 2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. England was very
• CIVILITY
  1. The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature
• CIVILIST
  A civilian. Warbur
• CIVILIZABLE
  Capable of being civilized.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.
• CIVILIZATION
  Rendering a criminal process civil. (more info) 1. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have,
• CIVILY
  In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
• CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
  In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified
• CIVILIZER
  One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.
• PRINCIPLE
  Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative
• CIVILIAN
  1. One skilled in the civil law. Ancient civilians and writers upon government. Swift. 2. A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves. 3. One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• UNCIVILITY
  Incivility.
• INCIVILITY
  1. The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson. 2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and
• INCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.
• HIGH-PRINCIPLED
  Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
• UNCIVIL
  1. Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized. Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. Burke. 2. Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.
• UNPRINCIPLE
  To destroy the moral principles of.
• UNCIVILIZED
  1. Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa. 2. Not civil; coarse; clownish. Addison.