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vilizing, 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, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke…

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.

The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. [R.]

sitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

iety 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 another word -- c…

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

physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste. What the Greeks expressed by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. J. C. Shairp. The list of all the items of the general life of a peop…

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

To reduce from civilization to a savage state. [R.] Blackwood's Mag.

foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

t is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.

country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

r with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.…

Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

nd protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Southey.

interjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization. Earle.

crowding or bumping together; interference. The jostle of South African nationalities and civilization. The Nation.