civilized

[CivĀ·i*lized]

Someone who is cultured and polite who knows to put his dinner napkin on his lap is civilized. So could you please behave in a civilized manner and get your feet off the dinner table?

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Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Adjective
having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

Adjective S.
marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"


imp. & p. p.
of Civilize

a.
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.


Civilized

Civ"i*lized , a. Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society.

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

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Usage Examples

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

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Other Usage Examples

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

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