Civil
King James Dictionary [1]
Civil, a.
1. Relating to the community, or to the policy and government of the citizens and subjects of a state as in the phrases, rights, government, privileges, war, justice. It is opposed to criminal as a suit, a suit between citizens alone whereas a criminal process is between the state and a citizen. It is distinguished from ecclesiastical, which respects the church and from military, which respects the army and navy. 2. Relating to any man as a member of a community as power, rights, the power or rights which a man enjoys as a citizen. 3. Reduced to order, rule and government under a regular administration implying some refinement of manners not savage or wild as life society. 4. Civilized courteous complaisant gentle and obliging well-bred affable kind having the manners of a city, as opposed to the rough, rude, coarse manners of a savage or clown.
Where speech and soft persuasion hung.
5. Grave sober not gay or showy.
Till suited morn appear.
6. Compaisant polite a popular colloquial use of the word. 7. Civil death, in law, is that which cuts off a man from society, or its rights and benefits, as banishment, outlawry, excommunication, entering into a monastery, &c., as distinguished from natural death. 8. Civil law, in a general sense, the law of a state, city or country but in an appropriate sense, the Roman empire, comprised in the Institutes, Code and Digest of Justinian and the Novel Constitutions. 9. Civil list, the officers of government, who are paid from the public treasury also, the revenue appropriated to support the government.
The army of James Ii was paid out of his list.
10. Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens, not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. 11. Civil war, a war between people of the same state or city opposed to foreign war. 12. Civil year, the legal year, or annual account of time which a government appoints to be used in its own dominions, as distinguished from the natural year, which is measured by the revolution of the heavenly bodies. 13. Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of life, in distinction from military and naval architecture as private houses, palaces, churches, &c.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (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.
(2): (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; - said of the community.
(3): (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; - said of an individual.
(4): (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
(5): (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
(6): (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
