CIVIDAD-di-Friuli, a small, but ancient town of Italy, in Friuli, and in the territory of Venice; seated on the river Natifona. E. Long. 13. 25. N. Lat. 46. 15.
CIVIL, in a general sense, something that regards the policy, public good, or peace of the citizens, or subjects of the state; in which sense we say, civil government, civil law, civil right, civil war, &c.
CIVIL, in a legal sense, is also applied to the ordinary procedure in an action, relating to some pecuniary matter or interest, in which sense it is opposed to criminal.