Definition of Civil

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Definition of Civil

Civil

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.

Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

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Civil Quotations

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
Barack Obama

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
Ann Coulter

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams

Civil Translations

civil in Dutch is civiel
civil in French is civil
civil in Italian is civico
civil in Latin is domesticus, civilis
civil in Spanish is burgues, civil

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