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civil
Latin civis. Pertaining to the citizen -- the free inhabitant of an independent city, in distinction from the government, the soldier, the peasant, the ecclesiastic, and persons of other classes. Pertaining to the administration of government, and contrasted with military and ecclesiastical: as, civil -- office, officer, tenure, qq. v.
Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)
Language : English