civic (sivik)

[= F. civique = Sp. cívico = Pg. It. civico, In the civic acceptation of the word, I am a merchant. T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, iii. 2. At civic revel and pomp and game. Tennyson, Duke of Wellington, vi. A candid examination will show that the Christian civilisations have been as inferior to the Pagan ones in civic and intellectual virtues as they have been superior to them in the virtues of humanity and of chastity. Lecky , Europ. Morals, II. 148. Civic crown, garland, or wreath, in Rom, antiq., a crown or garland of oak-leaves bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle. The commonwealth owes him a civic garland . B. Jonson, Cat i line, v. 4. Many a civic wreath they won, The youthful sire and the gray-haired son. 0. W. Holmes, Dorothy Q. civical (siv'i-kal), a. [ Browne .