'civilise' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to "improve the cultural and social development of a particular society or environment". Example sentence: "The government is attempting to civilise the small rural village by introducing better medical care and educational facilities."
The film makes you sit up and think about how we survive, how civilised we are, and how we civilise ourselves.
But Kirsty did civilise us.
They must tame it, accompany it, humanise it, civilise it".
Some claim that it can civilise society and political culture; others even maintain it could make the English talk about subjects other than the weather.
And that's why liberal proposals for strengthening federal power still smack of Harvardian colonial crusades to civilise the humid boondocks.Don't expensive federal guarantees make community and family charity both less necessary and less affordable?
The real ones had somehow got lost at boarding school, where the white world tried to civilise the rangy eight-year-old, born to a mother from the Black Sheep Clan and a father of the Sleeping Rock People.
To many in Europe (including, for what it is worth, this blogger) the abolition of capital punishment is a defining principle of the union: proof that the EU is a civilised, and civilising project.So it was small surprise when 26 out of 27 nations agreed to the proposal to have a European day against executions.
What it tells us first is that people like Wilson think those of us who actually work for a living need civilising, and the means for doing that is workplace discipline.
He began by patronising his readers and the people who pay his wages ("many Australians seem to have no idea what human rights are, and many certainly do not understand what free speech is") and then made this curious and revealing claim: Codes of conduct play an enormously important role in filling the gap between what is technically legal, and civilising and normalising behaviour.
They had no idea that we could reach them to a dead certainty at the distance of a mile… and out of one of these mobs of Blacks I selected a little girl with the intention of civilising".
Whereas they claim to be fighting for freedom, Wilson's talk about civilising us and regulating our conduct rather bells the cat.
