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Civil List   /sˈɪvəl lɪst/   Listen
noun
List  n.  
1.
A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. "Gartered with a red and blue list."
2.
A limit or boundary; a border. "The very list, the very utmost bound, Of all our fortunes."
3.
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. (Obs.)
4.
A stripe. (Obs.)
5.
A roll or catalogue, that is, row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate. "He was the ablest emperor of all the list."
6.
(Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; called also listel.
7.
(Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
8.
(Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
9.
(Tin-plate Manuf.)
(a)
The first thin coat of tin.
(b)
A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
Civil list (Great Britain & U.S.), the civil officers of government, as judges, ambassadors, secretaries, etc. Hence, the revenues or appropriations of public money for the support of the civil officers. More recently, the civil list, in England, embraces only the expenses of the reigning monarch's household.
Free list.
(a)
A list of articles admitted to a country free of duty.
(b)
A list of persons admitted to any entertainment, as a theater or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.
Synonyms: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule. List, Roll, Catalogue, Register, Inventory, Schedule. A list is properly a simple series of names, etc., in a brief form, such as might naturally be entered in a narrow strip of paper. A roll was originally a list containing the names of persons belonging to a public body (as Parliament, etc.), which was rolled up and laid aside among its archives. A catalogue is a list of persons or things arranged in order, and usually containing some description of the same, more or less extended. A register is designed for record or preservation. An inventory is a list of articles, found on hand in a store of goods, or in the estate of a deceased person, or under similar circumstances. A schedule is a formal list or inventory prepared for legal or business purposes.


adjective
Civil  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
2.
Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; said of the community. "England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil."
3.
Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; said of an individual. "Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven."
4.
Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable. Note: "A civil man now is one observant of slight external courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the duties and obligations flowing from his position as a 'civis' and his relations to the other members of that 'civitas.'"
5.
Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
6.
Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding.
Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
Civil death. (Law.) See under Death.
Civil engineering. See under Engineering.
Civil law. See under Law.
Civil list. See under List.
Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs.
Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office.
Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.
Civil suit. Same as Civil action.
Civil war. See under War.
Civil year. See under Year.





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"Civil list" Quotes from Famous Books



... this power to bludgeon the Legislative Council and the Governor into compliance with its wishes. The Colonial Office made concessions, offering to resign all its taxing powers in return for a permanent civil list, that is, an assurance that the salaries of the chief officials would not be questioned annually. The offer was reasonable in itself but, as it would have hampered the full use of the revenue bludgeon, it was ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton
... Poor Matthias. He had thought Mr Gladstone "hopelessly prejudiced against" him, and was proportionately surprised when in August 1883 he was offered by that Minister a pension of L250 for service to the poetry and literature of England. Few Civil List pensions have been so well deserved. But Mr Arnold, as most men of his quality would have been, was at once struck with the danger of evil constructions being put by the baser sort on the acceptance of an extra allowance from public funds by a man who already had a fair income from them, ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... expel popery, and keep out the Pretender. And, lest the army should be at a loss for business, I think it would be very prudent to employ them in collecting the public taxes for paying themselves and the civil list. ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII - Historical and Political Tracts--Irish • Jonathan Swift
... and a consequent lighter aggregate burden on the subjects. Doubtless, the "overhead charges" would not be reduced to their practicable minimum. Such a governmental establishment, with its bureaucratic personnel, its "civil list" and its privileged classes, would not be conducted on anything like a parsimonious footing. There is no reason to apprehend any touch of modesty in the exactions of such a dynastic establishment for itself or in behalf of its underlying hierarchy ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... is devolved by the Constitution or by the law, and the appointing officers are properly held to a high responsibility in its exercise. The growth of the country and the consequent increase of the civil list have magnified this function of the Executive disproportionally. It can not be denied, however, that the labor connected with this necessary work is increased, often to the point of actual distress, by the sudden and excessive demands that ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison


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