Crossword-Solution: CIVIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Civil | a. | Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. |
| Civil | a. | Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. |
| Civil | a. | Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual. |
| Civil | a. | Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable. |
| Civil | a. | Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state. |
| Civil | a. | Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CIVIL (5)
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy’s lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she never had a civil word from one of them.
Thomas Tyrwhitt, a well-read scholar, who gave up high civil distinctions that he might devote himself the more unreservedly to literary pursuits.
During the Civil War he assisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
Economic considerations, however, have played second fiddle to political and military upheavals, including the nine-year Soviet military occupation (ended 15 February 1989) and the continuing bloody civil war.
Quotes with CIVIL (3)
[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his right scratching his head, his white hair gleaming in the lamplight. I knew that when he was studying he was thinking, but I did not know what about. Now I have aged into knowledge of what he thought about. He thought of his strength and endurance when he was young, his merriment and joy, and how his life’s burdens had then grown upon him. He though…
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War — when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness abo…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 121 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).