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▪ I. unˈcivil, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Not civilized; barbarous; unrefined:
†a. Of persons. Obs.
1553Brende Q. Curtius iv. 35 The Bactrians be the most hardiest people amongst these nations, uncivill men. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 3 He sitting found in secret shade, An vncouth, saluage, and vnciuile wight. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 336 Among all men that professe Christ, there is not a more uncivill creature than the Calabrian. 1644[H. Parker] Jus Populi 42 No creature is now so uncivill or untame as Man.
b. Of actions, places, times, etc.
1553Brende Q. Curtius v. 86 This nacion for al their vncyuill and rude maner, could not escape to be subdued with the same force of fortune yt others were. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 633/1, I thought this manner of lewd crying and howling not impertinent to be noted as uncivill and Scythian-like. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 113 They of Goa also eat their pottage with their hands, mocking at the use of spoons as if they were uncivil. 1663Davenant Siege of Rhodes ii. i, Their gladness is but an uncivil Noise. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 88 Men cannot enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. 1890Charity Organis. Rev. Jan. 5 So is their project of feeding a barbarous and uncivil method in civic administration.
†2.
a. Undeveloped, rude, primitive. Obs.
1572Twyne Dionysius' Surv. World E vij b, These inhabite a very wilde, and vnciuile countrey, the mould beeing very sandy, and not meete for anye tillage. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 433 Bad and unciuill Husbandry in Ireland.
†b. Irresponsive to culture. Obs.
1675Evelyn Terra (1676) 69 That Soil may be so strangely alter'd..as to render the harsh and most uncivil Clay obsequious to the Husbandman. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. 50 note, I take harsh uncivil Clay to be the least Profitable of any to keep in Tillage.
3. Not civil or courteous, impolite; rough, rude, lacking in manners:
a. Of actions, etc.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 60 Ruffian: let goe that rude vnciuill touch, Thou friend of an ill fashion. 1596Edward III, ii. ii. 60 Now we thinke it an vnciuill thing, To trouble heauen with such harsh resounds. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv. 439 [They] Bad me begone; and then (in terms uncivil) Did call me counterfait, witch, hag, whore, divell. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 25 The which rugged, preposterous and uncivil answer, caused me presently to believe him to be whom I found him at the last. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Acts xv. 12 The proud Magisterial Talkers..stop and silence him by rude uncivil interruption, on pretence that he is too long. 1796F. Burney Camilla vii. xi, I'm not going to offer any thing uncivil. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xiii, Having found himself aggrieved by the uncivil behaviour of..Francis Tyrrel. 1878Browning Poets Croisic xciv, You've learnt your lesson..By this uncivil answer of La Roque.
Comb.1600Nashe Summers Last Will iv, Presumptuous Ver, vnciuill-nurturde boy, Think'st I will be derided thus of thee?
b. Of persons.
1611Cotgr., Mauduict,..ill brought vp, vnciuile, rude. 1619Beaum. & Fl. Knight of Malta v. i, Hard-hearted, and uncivil Oriana. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxxv, He was forced to be more uncivil to her than otherwise he should have been. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. viii, He was a very uncivil fellow to use such coarse language before People of Condition. 1758Johnson Idler No. 16 ⁋7 His riches neither made him uncivil nor negligent. 1845James Arrah Neil III. ii, We do not intend to be uncivil to you. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. v. 87 He was not absolutely uncivil to his cousin.
4. Not decent or seemly; indecorous.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 172 No effeminate or loose maners, no clownish or uncivill fashions are seene in him. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xxvii. (1614) 53/1 Her faire haire..so covered her nakednes, that no part of her body was uncivil to sight. 1682Bunyan Holy War (1905) 377 His two servants..catcht them together in uncivil manner more than once. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1010 That he should..vex th' Etherial Pow'rs With mid⁓night Mattins at uncivil Hours.
5. Not in accordance with civic unity; contrary to civil well-being.
1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 277 So that great trouble and vnciuill warres were growne vp..in euerie corner of the realme. 1620J. Taylor (Water P.) Jack a Lent B ij b, They run starke mad, assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse of ungouerned numbers, with vnciuill ciuill commotions. 1642–4Vicars God in Mount (1844) 29 Our home-bred and inbred distractions and uncivill-civill warres. 1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 2 Civill Commotions make roome for uncivill practises. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxvii. 13 Comes to the light some mischief, a deed uncivil arising.
†6. Not civilian. Obs.—1
1590Swinburne Testaments 67 To be decided and ruled by the dead stroke of vnciuill and martial cannons, rather then by anie rule of the ciuill or cannon lawe.
▪ II. † unˈcivil, v. Obs.—1
[un-2 6 a.]
trans. To render uncivil.
1615Daniel Hymen's Triumph iv. iii, I trust your lonenesse hath not so Vnciuil'd you, to force a messenger To doe against good manners, and his will. |