civilise's Usage Examples:

Protectors was to protect the Aboriginal people in their districts and to 'civilise' them, in other words to minimize conflicts between European settlers and.

livestock and open a school to attract and convert to Christianity and 'civilise' the local aboriginal people on their 640-acre grant of land.

for its later introduction by Christian missionaries in Polynesia to "civilise" those whom they considered half-naked savages.

The main aim of the mission was to "civilise" and Christianise the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area.

Since the 1960s there have been many efforts to "civilise" the Waimiri-Atroari to avoid problems with the BR-174 highway, which cuts.

Man's Burden" (1899) proposes that the white race is morally obliged to civilise the non-white peoples of planet Earth, and to encourage their progress.

your civilised wine.

Western civilisations sending missionaries to third-world countries to "civilise" them.

the Congo, he said to journalists: Our army has gone there (Africa) to civilise those black people.

He became known as a fine preacher, and he did much work to civilise his diocese.

"A Labor government will 'civilise the place', says leader Michael Daley".

window of the nave commemorates Hannah More, who as part of her work to 'civilise' the people of Cheddar and the surrounding villages, particularly the lead-miners.

Synonyms:

alter; modify; civilize; change;

Antonyms:

imperfection; roughness; uglify; juvenile; worsen;