Definitions

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  • noun A body of people constituting an organized community; city-state

Etymologies

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From Latin cīvitās.

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Examples

  • The Romans had guaranteed to the Carthaginians the preservation of their goods and their CITY, -- intentionally using the word civitas, that is, the society, the State; the Carthaginians, on the contrary, understood them to mean the material city, urbs, and accordingly began to rebuild their walls.

    What is Property? 1837

  • Confusing economics and civitas is the cenral ignorant conceit of the new conservatism.

    The Rise Of Feminism And The Fall Of The Family: Part 2 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The ancient law of Rome was called their civil law, from the word civitas, which signifies a

    Leviathan 2007

  • Wordsworth's image of unfenced tigers prowling the civitas is meant to register his sense that the state should police the anger of citizens rather than encourage it.

    Romantic Anger and Byron 1998

  • By "commonwealth" I must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less.

    Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II 1698

  • By common-wealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is common-wealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in

    Second Treatise of Government John Locke 1668

  • The ancient law of Rome was called their civil law, from the word civitas, which signifies a Commonwealth: and those countries which, having been under the Roman Empire and governed by that law, retain still such part thereof as they think fit, call that part the civil law to distinguish it from the rest of their own civil laws.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • It was always for those who were drawn into it what the Romans called a civitas, the word from which, much later, the far more ambiguous modern term ‘civilization’ would be derived.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • Dengan demikian, kualitas layanan informasi universitas seperti UGM sangat tergantung penuh pada kreativitas civitas akademika.

    ANTARA - Berita Terkini 2009

  • Saya mengajak para civitas akademia untuk mencoba memasarkan hasil penelitian kita, yang sebelumnya didahului dengan personal marketing and branding (marketing yourself).

    Planet Terasi 2008

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