civil sober, grave, decent, solemn:
“sad and civil,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 5
(where civil has been explained “tart, sour, bitter,”—very erroneously);
“by a civil peace maintain'd,”
2 HENRY IV., iv. 1. 42
;
“civil citizens,”
HENRY V., i. 2. 199
;
“civil night,”
ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 2. 10
;
“Montano, you were wont be civil,”
OTHELLO, ii. 3. 182
;
“my sober guards and civil fears,”
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT, 298.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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