Civil

  • 11civil — [siv′əl] adj. [OFr < L civilis < civis: see HOME] 1. of a citizen or citizens [civil rights] 2. of a community of citizens, their government, or their interrelations [civil service, civil war] 3. cultured; civilized 4. polite or courteous,… …

    English World dictionary

  • 12civil — civ‧il [ˈsɪvl] adjective [only before a noun] LAW relating to legal cases concerning private problems or disagreements rather than crimes: • He brought a civil suit against the company. • a senior lawyer who supervises all criminal and civil… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 13civil — late 14c., relating to civil law or life, from Fr. civil (13c.) and directly from L. civilis relating to a citizen, relating to public life, befitting a citizen, hence popular, affable, courteous; alternative adjectival derivation of civis… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 14civil — adj 1 *civic, civilian 2 Civil, polite, courteous, courtly, gallant, chivalrous are comparable as applied to persons or their words and acts when in intercourse with others with the meaning observant of the forms required by good breeding. Civil… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 15Civīl — Civīl, adj. et adv. welches nur in verschiedenen Zusammensetzungen üblich ist, und alsdann so viel als bürgerlich bedeutet. Die Civil Obrigkeit, die bürgerliche Obrigkeit, im Gegensatze der Militär Obrigkeit; der Civil Bediente, eine… …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 16civil — Civil, qui scait bien son entregent, Vrbanus, Ciuilis. Qui est fort civil, Perurbanus. Proces civil, proces ordinaire, Controuersia ciuilis. Le lieutenant civil, Legatus rerum priuatarum iudex …

    Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • 17civil — cìvīl m <G civíla> DEFINICIJA 1. građanska osoba (za razliku od pripadnika vojničkog ili svećeničkog sloja) 2. građanska odjeća ili narodna nošnja, odjeća koja nije uniforma; civilka SINTAGMA crkveni civil građansko odijelo s nekom oznakom… …

    Hrvatski jezični portal

  • 18Civīl — (v. lat.), 1) den Bürgerstand betreffend; 2) so v. w. das Civile; 3) gesittet, gebildet, human; 4) wohlfeil, billig. Im Zusammenhange bedeutet Civil ... bald bürgerlich, im Gegensatz zu Militär, bald steht es im Gegensatz zu Criminal …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 19civil — adj. 2 g. 1. Relativo ao cidadão. 2. Que não é militar nem eclesiástico. 3. Social. 4. Que respeita ao indivíduo (como membro da sociedade). 5. Feito segundo as leis civis. 6.  [Figurado] Urbano, cortês. 7. guerra civil: a que se trava entre dois …

    Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • 20civil — [adj1] civic, community civilian, domestic, governmental, home, interior, local, municipal, national, political, public; concepts 536,583 civil [adj2] obliging, kind accommodating, affable, civilized, complaisant, cordial, courteous, courtly,… …

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