6 example sentences using civilise.
Civilise used in a sentence
Civilise in a sentence as a verb
I look at this as a "intelligent, civilised person vs jerk" problem, not a "male vs female" problem.
This sounds very much like the 'white man's burden' of having a moral obligation to 'civilise savages'.
As is natural, he lavished barbarisms and neologisms on it; he had to civilise the language.
John Ruskin said it much better than I:"We have much studied and much perfected the great civilised invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.
Many civilised countries explicitely forbid this -- you only execute the highest punishment you are given if the accusations are related.
Adam Smith rants about how division of labor makes people "stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... But in every improved and civilised society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it.
Civilise definitions
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
See also: civilize