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An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

A native or citizen of Chili.

A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

The manners of a cit or citizen.

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. "What is the city but the people" Shak.

Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

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.

The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. [Obs.] Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of a…

State of citizenship. [R.] Dyer.

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

ned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Burke.

the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rights and privileges acquired by its citizens in their own land. By some authorities private international law rests on this comity, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

omissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen. Consul general, a consul of the first rank, stationed in an important place, or having jurisdiction in several places or over several consula. -- Vice consul, a co…

ing or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.