urbane (erban)

[L. urban us, of or pertaining to a city or city life, hence refined, polished, urbane: see urban. Urbane is to urban as humane is to human.] 1. Of or belonging to a city or town; urban. [Rare.] Though in no sense national, he [Horace] was, more truly than any has ever been since, till the same combination of circumstances produced Béranger, an urbane or city poet. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 239. 2. Civil; courteous; polite; usually, in a stronger sense, very polite; suave; elegant or refined: as, a man of urbane manners. A more civil and urbane kind of life. urchin U. scruposa and U. cinerea are used for dyeing. (b) Same as Urceolina.-2. [Lamarck, 1801.] In zoöl., the typical genus of Urceolariidæ, having the posterior acetabulum provided with an entire internal horny ring. U. mitra is found in fresh water as a parasite of planarian worms. So I the world abused - in fact, to me Urbane and civil as a world could be. Crabbe, Works, VIII. 159. =Syn. 2. Civil , Courteous , etc. See polite . urbanely (er-ban'li), adv . In an urbane man- ner; courteously; politely; suavely. Urbanist (ér'ban-ist), n . [ Urban (L. Urban us ) (see def.) + -ist .] 1. An adherent of Pope Urban VI., in opposition to whom a faction set up Clement VII. in 1378, thus beginning the the Clari es following a mitigated rule. See nus of geometrid moths, typical of the family Urapterygidæ, having the body moderately slender, the third joint of the palpi indistinct, the fore wings acute and triangular, and the hind wings with a caudiform angle on the exterior border. The species are found in tropical America, Asia, and Europe. U. sambuca ria is the only European one. urari (ö-rä'ri), n. Same as curari . urarize (ö-rä'rīz), a. Same as curarized. urate (u'rāt), n. [