civilis

Civility, coming from the Greek "civilis" – "relating to public life befitting a citizen" – is the antithesis of bullying, violence and intimidation.

Rude Britannia? Don't you believe it | Observer editorial 2011

Civil society civilis societas, quia societas est must acknowledge God as its Founder and Parent, and must obey and reverence His power and authority.

The Reign of Christ the King 2007

Belli civilis Gal.l. 1. hoc ferali bello et caedibus omnia repleverunt, et regnum amplissimum a fundamentis pene everterunt, plebis tot myriades gladio, bello, fame miserabiliter perierunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I find the words lex civilis and jus civile, that is to say, and law and right civil, promiscuously used for the same thing, even in the most learned authors; which nevertheless ought not to be so.

Leviathan 2007

However, in the form of scientia civilis it is also the key to the this-wordly perfection that can be attained in the just administration of the Venetian republic.

Giacomo Zabarella Mikkeli, Heikki 2005

In the third book Lipsius, in line with medieval and humanist mirrors of princes, focused on the distinctive virtue of the prince: political prudence (prudentia civilis), for which he depends both on himself and the advice of others (officials, councilors, military commanders).

Justus Lipsius Papy, Jan 2004

'Religion', he wrote, 'might yet turn out to be a virus sent by some malevolent alien civilis a tion with an extremely busy colonisation programme.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

“Everything excellent and worthy of remembrance has been achieved by wrong - doing, injustice and contempt for law,” was the admittedly highly rhetorical conclusion (Utra artium, medicinae an iuris civilis, praestet, ed. Garin, p. 29).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JERROLD E. SEIGEL 1968

Their method was dialectical and systematic; the authorities collected in the Decretum Gratiani, the Decretals, and the Corpus iuris civilis were quoted and harmonized with little regard to their historical development.

HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis, which was compiled later in the sixth century in Byzantium, was hardly studied in the West before the eleventh century.

COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968