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civilized
has definitions from the field of anthropology
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[ adjective ] (anthropology) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
Synonyms Examples "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)More emphasis was put upon the fact that international_law was the law of `` civilized nations '' ; Kent and Story , the great early American scholars , repeatedly made_use_of this phrase , or of `` Christian nations '' , which is a substantial equivalent . Wheaton stated that the public_law was essentially `` limited to the civilized and Christian peoples of Europe or to those of European origin '' . Related terms noncivilized advanced civil humane educated industrial refined humane |
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[ adjective ] marked by refinement in taste and manners
Synonyms Examples "cultivated speech" "cultured Bostonians" "cultured tastes" "a genteel old lady" "polite society" Related terms |
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