CIVIL, siv'il, _adj._ pertaining to the community: having the refinement of
city-bred people: polite: commercial, not military: lay, secular, or
temporal, not ecclesiastical: pertaining to the individual citizen: (_law_)
relating to private relations amongst citizens, and such suits as arise out
of these, as opposed to _criminal_: (_theol._) naturally good, as opposed
to good through regeneration.--_ns._ CIVIL'IAN, a professor or student of
civil law (not canon law): one engaged in civil as distinguished from
military and other pursuits; CIV'ILIST, one versed in civil law; CIVIL'ITY,
good-breeding: politeness.--_adv._ CIV'ILLY.--_adj._ CIV'IL-SUIT'ED
(_Milton_), sombrely clad.--_n._ CIV'ISM, good citizenship, state of being
well-affected to the government.--CIVIL DEATH, the loss of all civil and
legal but not natural privileges, as by outlawry: CIVIL ENGINEER, one who
plans rail-ways, docks, &c., as opposed to a military engineer, or to a
mechanical engineer, who makes machines, &c.; CIVIL LAW, as opposed to
criminal law: the law laid down by a state regarding the rights of the
inhabitants; CIVIL LIST, now the expenses of the sovereign's household
only; CIVIL LIST PENSIONS, those granted by royal favour; CIVIL SERVICE,
the paid service of the state, in so far as it is not military or naval;
CIVIL WAR, a war between citizens of the same state. [L.
_civ[=i]lis_--_civis_.]
CIVILISE, siv'il-[=i]z, _v.t._ to reclaim from barbarism: to instruct in
arts and refinements.--_adj._ CIV'ILISABLE.--_n._ CIVILIS[=A]'TION, state
of being civilised--_p.adj._ CIV'ILISED.--_n._ CIV'ILISER.