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

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…

To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.] "Civilizing adultery." Milton.

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

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

e His good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

yak. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

Same as Eskimo. It is . . . an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. McClintock.