Three other caravels, which quickly followed De Cintra, sailed with special orders to Christianise and civilise the natives wherever and however they could, and the result of this was seen in the daring venture of Joan Fernandez.
But in a case like this: oh no, I wouldn't kill him, I'd civilise him.
There a devoted missionary, Mr Evans, with his brave wife and a lady teacher, Miss Adams, were nobly toiling and were not unsuccessful in their efforts to Christianise and then to civilisethe Indians.
It is true that there were not many encouragements in their efforts to civilise in a land where hunting and fishing were nearly the only way by which a livelihood could be obtained.
He might have added that military contact between people unequally civilised does more to barbarise the civilised than to civilise the barbarous population.
Nor is there often any compensation for such results in the improved condition of the tribes whom it is sought to civilise after the method recommended by Sepulveda.
It was decreed that, when they burst from their wild woods, the Arabian principles should meet them on the threshold of the old world to guide and to civilise them.
In our endeavours to civilise the Indians, we have not only to convince the mind and change the habits, but to overcome a certain physical organisation to which labour and constraint and confinement appear to be fatal.
These were collected by the Methodist missionaries into a village or settlement, about two miles farther on, where an attempt has been made to civilise and convert them.
We spent several days in the Gaboon, amongst a race of negroes who struck me as being more intelligent and more easy to civilise than any others on the coast.
If the slave trade is put down--and when I was on that coast its days seemed already numbered--that enterprising and plucky Frenchman will have done more to civilise those countries than all the more violent measures have accomplished.
They do not even civilise or improve the country they take.
A railway will do more to civilise the people in the interior and increase trade than any other means that could be adopted to improve the natives and open up the country.
The Imperialist out to "civilise the barbarians" is, of course, shocked by such wickedness; but we are beginning to open our eyes to the wickedness and hypocrisy of both.
A good English bishop would also, he thought, be a means to civilise the country.
Evidently he did not desire to plant colonists in the country, but rather to civilise the people as they were.
It might be possible to civilise some of the Irish: the rest should be extirpated, and English farmers with good leases and moderate rents substituted for them.
In future, he grandly declared, he would communicate only with head-quarters, and he hoped that her Majesty would support his efforts to civilise his wild country.
As a lad, he had visited Rome; and he retained throughout life a strong sense of his own and his people's barbarism, and a genuine desire to civilise himself and his subjects, so far as his limited lights could carry him.
But in the rare intervals of peace, Ælfred did his best to civilise his people.
In 681 he completed the conversion of England by his preaching to the South Saxons, whom he endeavoured to civilise as well as Christianise.
British law and justice, my darling; the beautiful code of laws that was made to civilise Ireland four centuries ago, and hasn't done much to talk about up to this!
Now let us see how it is proposed to civilise them.
Perhaps it is one of the steps which must be taken to civilise these poor Indians that their names should undergo a strange and, to me, unmeaning metamorphose.
Although the Carthaginians had had frequent intercourse with these islands and a Port of the smaller of the two still bears a Punic name,[559] they had done little to civilise the native inhabitants.
But Varus, his general, had been killed with all his men in the Teutoburg Woods, and after that the Romans made no further attempts to civilise these wild people.
It was not an easy task to civilise the rough frontiers-men who had spent most of their time fighting Mohammedans and Huns and Norsemen.
It is not only impossible for one nation tocivilise another by governing it; it is wrong that it should attempt to do so.
We shall do more to civilise Africa by civilising the East End of London than by governing from Cape to Cairo.
Poor stuff this to educate their children and to civilise and Christianise their parents.
It was not an easy task to civilise the rough frontiersmen who had spent most of their time fighting Mohammedans and Huns and Norsemen.
But Varrus, his general, had been killed with all his men in the Teutoburg Woods, and after that the Romans made no further attempts to civilisethese wild people.
The men who commit this crime make the public believe that they are performing an act of mercy, that these non-combatants are prisoners of war whom they forgive and send to work as free men, intending to civilise and protect them.
In truth, Mayan morality is very, very lax, and the blame lies on the "Christians" who came four centuries back to Yucatan to civilise and preach the love of God to the Indians.
The long lines of fazenda houses, that now and then take from the solitariness of nature, suggest no association with any advance either of old or present time, in the arts that civilise or that ennoble man.
Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo Huaco, the Children of the Sun, come from Lake Titicaca to govern and civilise the tribes of Peru " 374 In one cave the soldiers found vases of pure gold, etc.
He found “no work so meritorious,” so serviceable to mankind, “as the discovery and development of the arts and inventions that tend to civilise the life of men.
While we are opening up Africa, it seems to me that we should make an effort to civilise and carry the blessings of Christianity to the numberless inhabitants of Borneo beyond the province of Sarawak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
