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Smooth; polished. [Obs.] Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton.

In a polite manner; with politeness.

The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Politeness.

A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

See Cosmopolitan.

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.

A metropolitan. Barrow.

A monopolist. Sylvester.

A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is esentially a silicate of aluminia and soda.

A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.

Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.

iendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

stic animals.] (b) Well brought up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite.

es and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.