[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

civilize \civ"ilize\, v. t. imp.  p. p. civilized; p. pr. 
   vb. n. civilizing. cf. f. civilizer, fr.l. civilis civil.
   see civil.
   1. to reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules
      and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
      1913 webster

            yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
            her land to civilize, as to subdue.   --dryden
      1913 webster

   2. to admit as suitable to a civilized state. obs. or r.
      "civilizing adultery." --milton.

   syn: to polish; refine; humanize.
        1913 webster
see also:
civilized civilizing civil 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

civilized \civ"ilized\, a.
   reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts,
   learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
   1913 webster

         sale of conscience and duty in open market is not
         reconcilable with the present state of civilized
         society.                                 --j. quincy.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

civilized
     adj 1: having a high state of culture and development both social
            and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the
            civilized world" syn: civilised ant: noncivilized
     2: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
        speech"; "cultured bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a
        genteel old lady"; "polite society" syn: civilised, cultivated,
         cultured, genteel, polite
see also:
civilised noncivilized cultivated cultured genteel polite 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

58 moby thesaurus words for "civilized":
   christian, abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, becoming,
   befitting, bettered, bland, comme il faut, conforming, converted,
   correct, cultivated, cultured, dainty, decent, deep, delicate,
   developed, discriminating, done, educated, elegant, embellished,
   encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine,
   graceful, gracile, gracious, improved, learned, lettered, literate,
   nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath,
   polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic,
   smooth, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed,
   urbane, wise

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