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Examples of civilise
civilise
Or is it that Africa's standard is so low that you can't help but to civilise us?
From the guardian.co.uk
Does art have its uses, other than to civilise, enlighten, stimulate, console?
From the guardian.co.uk
He hopes that her training there will contribute to his plan to civilise his people.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Governments are apologising for globalisation and promising to civilise it.
From the economist.com
His glory, though, was to help civilise Gothic culture, even as it supplanted Imperial Rome.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Better plumbing, a taste for innovation, and a mission to civilise immigrants all played a part.
From the economist.com
We learn to sublimate these urges and to civilise the experience.
From the guardian.co.uk
Like other colonists, the Americo-Liberians believed that they had a mission to civilise the natives.
From the economist.com
Nato committed thousands of troops to the impossible task of trying to stabilise and civilise the country.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- Educate: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
- Civilize: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
- Civilization (or civilisation) is a term used to describe specific stages of human social development and organization considered to be most advanced. The term is also used to refer to a human society that meets such requirements. ...
- To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour; To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior; To bring from a state of ...
- Elevate in social and private life.
