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  • adjective Archaic spelling of civil.

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Examples

  • In legal terms, there are issues here of violations of civill rights, of anti-trust issues, and ofcriminal conspiracy.

    Exposing Wisconsin's civil rights and criminal abuse against its farmers

  • Here's the breakdown by age group of approval of same-sex marriage and civill unions (in 2006):

    Huckabee Directly Equates Homosexuality With Bestiality

  • But none can be ignorant of plenty of rules, touching the administration of civill justice: we finde enough in the word, to bound the exorbitancy, and set banks to the pride and injustice of state.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

  • When you talk about reconstructing a country, beyond the provision of more troops, you've got to get civill reconstruction teams in there, economic development.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2008

  • When you talk about reconstructing a country, beyond the provision of more troops, you've got to get civill reconstruction teams in there, economic development.

    CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2008

  • Richard Bellingham, former town recorder of Boston, England, was governor of the Bay Colony in 1641; according to a contemporary, this “much honored” man worked to “further civill Government of this wandering people, he being learned in the Lawes of England, and experimentally fitted for the worke.”

    A History of American Law

  • Richard Bellingham, former town recorder of Boston, England, was governor of the Bay Colony in 1641; according to a contemporary, this “much honored” man worked to “further civill Government of this wandering people, he being learned in the Lawes of England, and experimentally fitted for the worke.”

    A History of American Law

  • Richard Bellingham, former town recorder of Boston, England, was governor of the Bay Colony in 1641; according to a contemporary, this “much honored” man worked to “further civill Government of this wandering people, he being learned in the Lawes of England, and experimentally fitted for the worke.”

    A History of American Law

  • This means civill servants, chiefs andemployees from government companaies may not get the August pay.

    No salary for civil servants in Malawi

  • But will voting Democrat be a vote for chaos and civill war in the Middle East?

    Think Progress » Gingrich: There Is An ‘Insurgency’ in CT Which Says ‘Can’t We Come Home And Hide?’

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