Word Meanings - CIVIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen
Additional info about word: CIVIC
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.
Related words: (words related to CIVIC)
- SAVELY
Safely. Chaucer. - CROWN SIDE
See OFFICE - SOLDIERLY
Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney. - CROWNED
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing - SOLDIERLIKE
Like a soldier; soldierly. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - GARLANDLESS
Destitute of a garland. Shelley. - CROWNER
A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: - DERIVE
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior. - ANTIQUATION
The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont. - SAVE
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except. - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - SAVACIOUN
Salvation. - CROWNLAND
In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria. - SAVINGLY
1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland. - CIVIC
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - ANTIQUIST
An antiquary; a collector of antiques. Pinkerton. - ANTIQUITY
1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. 2. Old age. It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak. 3. Ancient times; former - ANTIQUARIANISM
Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - ENGARLAND
To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney. - DERIVATIVE
Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found - LABOR-SAVING
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery. - MISREMEMBER
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - MISAVIZE
To misadvise. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - CESSAVIT
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. - INCIVIL
Uncivil; rude. Shak.