CIVIDADE, a city of northern Italy, government of Venice and delegation of Udine, on the river Natisone, over which there is a bridge 250 feet in length. It has a collegiate church with a library and archives, and a museum. Pop. 6000.
CIVIL (Lat. civilis, from civis a citizen), in a general sense, relating to the community, or to the policy and government of the citizens and subjects of a state; as in the phrases civil government, civil right, civil war.
CIVIL, in a popular sense, is applied to a complaisant and polite behaviour in the ordinary intercourse of life.
CIVIL has also several other significations, its meaning in each case implying contrariety to that with which it is used; as civil and criminal, civil and ecclesiastical, civil and military. (See also CIVIL STATE, and CIVIL YEAR.)