civilizee (sivilize)

[ The creature that Whitman terms the civilizee . The Century, XXVI. 933. One who or that which civilizer (siv'i-li-zėr), n. civilizes. Also spelled civiliser . To nations at a certain stage of their life, which may be called the formative or receptive stage, commerce has al ways proved the great civilizer . Stillé, Stud. Med. Hist., p. 416. (a) civilly (siv'i-li), adv. In a civil manner. In a manner relating to government, or to the rights or character of members of the community at large; espe cially, in a secular manner, as opposed to ecclesiastically. If you ask which is the better of these two, Civilly the Gentleman of Blood, Morally the Gentleman by Creation may be the better. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 52. That a multitude should, without harmony, concur in the doing of one thing-for this is civilly to live... is not po ible. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, i. It [the state in France] made, for instance, the marriage IMG:content-0500.png:[blocks in formation] That accusation which is publick is either civilly commenced for the private satisfaction of the party injured, or else criminally, that is, for some publick punishment. Ayliffe , Parergon. (c) Not naturally, but by law: as, a man civilly dead. (d) Politely; considerately; gently; with due decorum; courteously. I will deal civilly with his poems: nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead. Dryden, Pref. to Fables. (et) Without gaudy colors or finery; soberly. The chambers were handsome and cheer full, and furnished civilly. Bacon, New At lant is. klakken, throw or daub on, as clay, mud, or other soft ma , = OHG. clecchan, clechan, kle ken, crack with a noise, cause to burst, MHG. klechen, klecken, crack or burst with a noise, also as in G. klecken and klecksen, daub, smear; all being secondary forms of an a umed verb, agreeing nearly with click1, q. v.: AS. as if * cle can, pret. *clæc, pp. * clocen, whence also AS. cloccian, E. clock1 and cluck, make the peculiar noise of the hen, = OHG. chlochōn, chlocchōn, cloccôn, strike, knock, whence also ult. E. clock2: see click, clock1, clock2, cluck. The words are all more or le imitative; cf. G. klack, klacks, interj., slap!; Ir. Gael. clac, make a din; Gr. κλάζειν, scream, bark, clash, rattle. The series clack, click1, nasalized clank, clang, clink, with the related clock1, cluck, and further clap1, clat ter, clash, and crack, crash, with their numerous cognates, though of various historical origin, may be regarded as ult. imitative variations of a common root.] I. in trans. 1. To make a quick sharp noise, or a succe ion of sharp sounds, as by striking or cracking; crack; rattle; snap. The palace bang'd, and buzz'd, and clackt , And all the long-pent stream of life Dash'd downward in a cataract, Tennyson, Day-Dream, The Revival. The clacking loom Not long within the homestead still did stand. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 202. 2. To utter sounds or words rapidly and continually, or with sharpne and abruptne ; let the tongue run or rattle. Talke discrete lye, let not thy tongue go clack in an out- rage. Rhodes, Boke of Nurture (E. E. T. S.), p. 103. Let thy tonge not clakke as a mille. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 109. But ah! the more the white goose laid, It clack'd and cackled louder. Tennyson, The Goose. II. trans. 1. To cause to make a sharp, short, snapping sound; rattle; clap: as, to clack two pieces of wood together.-2. To speak without thought; rattle out. Unweighed custom makes them clack out anything their Feltham, Resolves, i. 4. heedle fancy springs. Civil-suited Morn,... Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont With the Attick boy to hunt, But kercheft in a comely cloud. Milton, Il Penseroso, 1. 122.