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Civil

adjective

Applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military.

Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others. Synonym: polite.

Of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state. "Civil strife" , "Civil disobedience" , "Civil branches of government"

Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals. Synonym: civic. "Civil liberty" , "Civic duties" , "Civic pride"

(of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life. "A civil day begins at mean midnight"

Of or in a condition of social order.

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"Civil" Quotes from Famous Books

... a century later, however, an affirmative answer was suggested in the Passenger Cases,[615] in which a State tax on each passenger arriving on a vessel from a foreign country was set aside, though chiefly in reliance on existing treaties and acts of Congress. But similar cases arising after the Civil War were disposed of by direct recourse to the commerce clause.[616] Meantime, in 1865, the newly admitted State of Nevada, in an endeavor to prevent a threatened dissipation of its population, levied ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... country, private Pakistani and Saudi sources also are active; power struggles among various groups for control of Kabul, regional rivalries among emerging warlords, traditional tribal disputes continue; support to Islamic fighters in Tajikistan's civil war; border dispute with Pakistan (Durand Line); support to Islamic militants ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the more prosperous of the Panchamas and help them on their way to a higher status. Thus probably half the Sudras of the present day were at some more or less remote period Panchamas. Again, during periods of great civil commotion, as in the 18th century, when brute force was supreme, not a few Panchamas, especially low-caste Mahrattas, made their way to the front as soldiers of fortune, and even carved out kingdoms to themselves at the point of ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... After the civil formalities and the religious ceremony the wedding party went to Anna's house. Among those whom the Tailles had brought was a cousin of a certain age, a Monsieur Sauvetanin, a man given to philosophical reflections, serious, and always very ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... all the contents of the law are set forth by way of precept; for some are expressed under the form of ordinance or statute binding under pain of a fixed punishment. Accordingly, just as in the civil law the transgression of a legal statute does not always render a man deserving of bodily death, so neither in the law of the Church does every ordinance or statute bind under mortal sin; and the same applies to the statutes ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

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