# civilly
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English cyvyly, equivalent to civil +‎ -ly.

### Pronunciation

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### Adverb

civilly (comparative more civilly, superlative most civilly)
* In a civil manner; politely.
** 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times‎:Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
* (obsolete) In a manner befitting a citizen.
** 1554, “An Act that Persons dwelling in the Country shall not sell divers Wares in Cities or Towns Corporate by Retail”, in The Statutes at Large, from the First Year of King Edward the Fourth to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. […], volume II, London: […] Mark Basket, […] the Assigns of Robert Basket; […] Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, […], published 1763, →OCLC, page 472:WHERE before this Time the ancient Cities, Boroughs, Towns Corporate and Market-Towns within this Realm of England have been very populous, and chiefly inhabited with Merchants, Artificers and Handicraftſmen, during which Time the Children in the ſaid Cities, Boroughs, Towns Corporate and Market-Towns, were civilly brought up and inſtructed, and alſo the ſaid Cities, Boroughs and Towns Corporate, kept in good Order and Obeiſance, and the Inhabiters of the ſame well ſet on work, and kept from Idleneſs; […]
** 1635, Iohn Botero [i.e., Giovanni Botero], translated by T[homas] H[awkins], “Of Authoritie”, in The Cause of the Greatnesse of Cities. […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:The people inhabit ſcatteringly here and there, in Dennes or Caverns (rather than Houſes) of Boughes and Leaves of Palme-trees. And becauſe this manner of living ſo diſperſedly, is the cauſe that theſe people remaine in their former ſavageneſſe of mind, and crueltie of life: and withall, inſomuch as it importeth infinite difficulties, to the preaching of the Goſpel, and Civill Government; the Portugals, and the Fathers of the Societie, uſe their beſt endeavours, to reduce them together, in certaine fit and convenient places; where living civilly, they may with the more facilitie be inſtructed by thoſe Fathers in the Rules of Faith, and governed by the Kings Officers. There may alſo be reduced to this Head, thoſe Cities, which have beene builded by Power, and inhabited by the authoritie of great Princes, or famous Common-wealths: […]
** 1646, Francis Biondi [i.e., Giovanni Francesco Biondi], translated by Henry [Carey, 2nd] Earle of Monmouth, “The Seventh Book of the Civill Warres of England in the Life of Edward the Fift”, in The Second Part of the History of the Civill Warres of England between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke. […], volume II, London: […] E. G. for Richard Whitaker, […], →OCLC, page 101:Shee was well borne, and civilly brought up; her ruine was her being unequally Married: not that her Husband was not of good eſteeme amongſt the Citizens, and according to his quality well to live: but for that ſhee being of riper Yeares then hee, the love which uſeth to be betweene equalls was not betweene them; […]

#### Derived terms

* civilly dead
* civilly disobedient

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “civīllī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “civilly, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.