recivilizev.
/ˌriːˈsɪvl̩ʌɪz/, /ˌriːˈsɪvᵻlʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈsɪvəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To civilize again; to bring back into civilization.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > make civilized [verb (transitive)] > again
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1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada iii. 188 Shee would receive more gust from such a sight by land..than from the savage-growne..Countrey of the Dardans and Triballs, nor yet recovered or well re-civilized [It. ben rifatti] since the last warre.
1719 J. Richardson Sci. Connoisseur iv. 221 The Happy Age of Rafaelle..was productive of several very great Men in All kinds; and These parts of the World began to be Re-civiliz'd.
1813 G. Edwards Appropriate Meas. True Policy 25 France and Great Britain..would readily recivilize the ancient World.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 410 Fair Cabarus,..struggling to recivilise mankind.
1925 Jrnl. Social Forces 3 655/1 Education, the process of recivilizing each new generation of men, is only incidentally a matter of formal schools and teaching.
1958 C. Emery Ideas into Action v. 93 Catholicism..recivilized Europe after the fall of Rome.
1995 Independent 10 Mar. 5/4 I will be very happy for the Royal Academy to take a lead and be the first to recivilise these spaces.
Derivatives
reˈcivilized adj.
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1874 Times 30 Jan. 4/4 Conquered and re-civilized Cartagena.
1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris I. 6 In the restored and recivilized England of a distant future.
1996 Record (Nexis) 31 May n11 A recivilized, remoralized American culture requires a restored civil society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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