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has civilized

  • present perfect
    of civilize (3rd person singular).
    civilize
    verb (used with object)
    to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine.

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And just to the extent that man has become civilized, he has civilized his god.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Robert Green Ingersoll

Corralat, who has civilized his country somewhat, has his mosque, and makes his people attend it.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

It should be, further, that of the people which has been least subjugated, or which, having been subjugated, has civilized its conquerors.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

It has civilized mankind; made all the poems, painted all the pictures, and composed all the music.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

From the Moors, I believe, we learned the first rudiments of that art which has civilized the world.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll