civil (freq. in collocations referring to civil war, e.g. “ arms” R2 III. iii. 102, “ wounds” I. iii. 128; 1 rare in S.; 2 not pre-S.; the sense of ‘wellmannered, polite’ MND. iii. ii. 147 comes partly out of sense 2; in Ado II. i. 306 there is a pun on ‘Seville’)
1.
of or belonging to citizens Rom.
Prol. 4 “Where civil blood
makes civil hands unclean.”
2.
having proper public
or social order, wellgoverned, orderly Gent. V. iv. 156, 2H4 IV. i. 42, H5 I. ii. 199,
Ant. V. i. 16
“civil streets.”
3.
pertaining to civil
law
Mer.V. V. i. 210
“a doctor”
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