civilizate

present singular third person civilizates · participle present civilizating · participle past civilizated · past civilizated · alternative civilisate

1. nonstandardraretransitiveAmerican and Oxford British spelling; chiefly non-native speakers' English; American and Oxford British spelling; chiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo civilize.

   To render only a small minority as "essential instrument for civilizating the nations" does not do justice to the overarching task of what civilization requires: MORE than just a small minority is needed for rendering the nations civilized.

   2005 April 22, -, “Why Does the Subject of Survivalism Attract Racists?”, in misc.survivalism (Usenet)

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   For the past half-decade, there have been close to a thousand sex abuse cases filed against various Calothic-sponsored schools in various wilderness regions of Canada. These are the ones we hear about. I assume that the USA has had similar infestations. Those "civilizating" fathers don't seem to be very up on this "good fathers" bit.

   1996 July 9, Greg Goss, “African Americans?”, in alt.california (Usenet)

   on that iland^([sic]) they eventually would turn on each other and destroy their own dam self. just like they waould a^([sic]) done in olden bible times if the romans had not step in and civilizated them. them romans were into that civilizating crap.

   2000 October 27, No User, “AF2Y ~~~~~~~~ when he”, in alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest (Usenet)