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.
• 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.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.