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zation; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.

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

Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.

Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

ver. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owi…

Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil. Spenser.

Capable of being civilized.

The act of civilizing, 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 religi…

Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life. Buckle.