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Civilise meaning
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 savagery to an educated or refined state.
Example sentences (3)
His adviser at the court in London – whose mission was to “civilise” the Scots “barbarians” that had come to rule them – objected that it was England at the top as England provided all the wealth.
The schools, often run by Christian churches, were part of the forced assimilation policy launched by Congress in 1819 as an effort to “civilise” Native Americans, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiian peoples.
Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide.