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/ˈsɪv.əl/ · adjective
(not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion..
She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour For private sorrow’s barren song, When more and more the people throng The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
It was very civil of him to stop the argument.
They despise each other, but they are always civil in public.
Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country: VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he, England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free.
a civil case
As if our Saviour had said, No man can enter into heaven except he be born again; so as he speaketh not only of notorious Sinners, as Adulterers, Drunkards, Swearers, & c. but of all who are in their natural condition, tho' they live never so unblameably, free from scandalous sins, if they be not born again, their civil Righteousness will do them little good, for they shall never see the Kingdom of God.
The word from which "evil" in Romans 13.4 is translated means "generally opposed to civil goodness or virtue, in a commonwealth, and not to spiritual good, or religion, in the church.
Use civil when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Civil means (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion..
Common synonyms include nonreligious, temporal, worldy, areligious.
Possible antonyms include anti-civil, impolite, inconsiderate, noncivil.
She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
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