† incivilizev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make civilized, to refine.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > purify or refine
slick1340
filec1400
polishc1400
burnish1526
polite1535
extirpate1548
purify1548
soften1579
purgea1582
refine1592
mellow1593
civilize1596
rarefy1600
incivilize1603
sublimate1624
alembicate1627
chastise1627
sublime1631
calcine1635
gentilize1635
ennoble1636
subtilize1638
deconcoct1655
sublimizea1729
smooth1762
absterge1817
decrassify1855
sandpaper1890
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vi. 546 Such handes as would gentlye have polished, reformed and incivilized, what in them they deemed to bee barbarous and rude.
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