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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Civilize \Civ"i*lize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Civilized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Civilizing}.] [Cf. F. civilizer, fr.L. civilis civil. See {Civil}.]
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. [Obs. or R.] ''Civilizing adultery.'' --Milton.
Syn: To polish; refine; humanize.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Civilized \Civ"i*lized\, adjective 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
civilized
adjective
1: having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" [syn: {civilised}] [ant: {noncivilized}]
2: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: {civilised}, {cultivated}, {cultured}, {genteel}, {polite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "civilized": Christian, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, becoming, befitting, bettered, bland, comme il faut, conforming, converted, correct, cultivated, cultured, dainty, decent, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, done, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, graceful, gracile, gracious, improved, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, smooth, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, wise
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