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er human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination. Sportswood.

or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam.

alified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

s of the great continental powers at Geneva and signed in 1864, establishing new and more humane regulation regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, a…

Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto. The men were very good unto us. 1 Sam. xxv. 15.

himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." Locke.

To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.

One who renders humane.

Kindly; humanely. [Obs.] Pope.

Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.

Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind. Tennyson.

those bright luminaries Officious. Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. Burke.

To stretch out the hand. Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! Milton.

mselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.