Verb (used with object), : Rome civilized the barbarians.    From Dictionary.com. 

"Say, comrade," he said, "is Spain what they call a civilised country?".    From Wordnik.com.  [!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War] Reference

This isn't quite what we call civilised warfare, but I suppose it can't be helped. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Golden Star ...] Reference

The enterprise of individuals or of small aristocratic bodies has meantime sown the world which we call civilised with some seeds and nuclei of order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Reason] Reference

Nathreee's Thoughts - dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings] Reference

But in civilised society you cannot after one glance say to a person, "I'm afraid I don't like you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

Though the people are poor, and much less advanced in civilised ways, they are courteous and unassuming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

The pleasures of society in civilised Greece seem to have been sought chiefly in the heresies of love — Hetairesis378 and Sotadism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Japan as barbarous while she indulged in the gentle arts of peace: he calls her civilised since she began to commit wholesale slaughter on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Tea] Reference

They are a simple, bold, free people, ingenious and ingenuous, supplying their own every absolute need, utterly untaught in civilised ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

She only liked what she called civilised places, and since her idea of civilised meant Europe and the eastern seaboard of America, that was it for me.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]

And quite frankly, James, and anonymous, the waspish personal remarks are uncalled for on this site and it's a shame that you are unable to engage in civilised debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ITV News] Reference

"Professor," replied the commander, quickly, "I am not what you call a civilised man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference

Haiti is not what I would call a civilised country.    From Wordnik.com.  [legitgov] Reference

01 June 2010 @ 09: 02 am dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [dreams about wild animals in civilised surroundings] Reference

The so called civilised world should be ashamed of keeping silent for so long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

I sometimes think in our so-called civilised society we have moved too far away from Kipling!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

The resulting outcry by a so-called civilised world community that has resolutely refused even.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Is this really possible that this could happen in a so called civilised society not that long ago?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cross Rhythms] Reference

Why should the Japanese, Norwegians etc get to explot them and the so-called civilised nations not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

In 1945, those who had defeated the Axis also changed the consciousness of the so-called civilised world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference

As long as people think that help is on the way they will sit still and for the most part remain civilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka.] Reference

Which has sanctioned more killings of innocent civilians of late than any other so called civilised democracy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This is the well-known way in which, ever since the world called civilised began, the area of conflict is widened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference

I'm disappointed that a so-called civilised society - an ally - is involved in such barbaric and medieval behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

One is compelled to ponder over why, after all, we are in a mad race to live and excel in this so-called civilised world!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

I knew the value of caution in approaching so-called civilised men, having had bitter experience with the Giles expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont] Reference

We Russians are the only so-called civilised nation who are brutal enough for that; but we are far from being civilised really.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Things] Reference

"The resulting outcry by a so-called civilised world community that has resolutely refused even to report the rocket barrages ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Let history speak and it will tell you that deeds of darkest hue have been perpetrated in so-called civilised, though pagan lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog Crusoe and his Master] Reference

Protestant, and so-called civilised times, who hides his head in a solitude in Yorkshire, and buries his probably fine talents in a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Do I buy into its denial of the principle of droit d’auteur which the courts in civilised countries base their copyright legislation on?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creative Control - Part 1] Reference

Serbian forces, the "so-called civilised world" had to date only responded by passing resolutions and providing material aid to the victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Now I don't condone adultery, but I do violently object to British women being stripped of their human rights in so-called civilised Muslim countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference

For my own part, I confess to having been conscious of a certain disagreeable feeling on returning in this respect to the usages of so-called civilised Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

This was one of the supposed sticking points which the EU, America and other so-called civilised nations said would be enough to stop them participating in Durban 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spectator Live] Reference