civilizedly

English

Etymology

From civilized +‎ -ly.

Adverb

civilizedly (comparative more civilizedly, superlative most civilizedly)

1. In a civilized manner.
   • 1847, Washington M’Cartney, “Preliminary Lecture”, in The Origin and Progress of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. H. Butler & Co., page 27:

     They became, not civilly, but civilizedly dead.

   • 1855 November, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XLVI, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Samuel Hueston, page 546:

     […]; people looked at me half-civilizedly;

   • 1886 April 10, “Bigots and Jobbers. Col. Donan Declares That Dakota is Suffering From Too Much Partisan Jackassery. Carpet-Bag Government Over-Riding the Just Demands of a Long-Suffering People. Political Knavery and Congressional Trickery Taking the Place of True Statemanship. The Territory Nevertheless Working Out Its Sublime Future--The South Enjoying a Boom.”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, volume VIII, number 100, Saint Paul, Minn., page 10:

     Yes, I expect to reach Devil’s Lake some time towards the last of this month, when the thermometers have learned to conduct themselves somewhat more civilizedly.

   • 1898, C. Amryc, “Prevention or Cure?”, in Pantheism, the Light and Hope of Modern Reason, page 257:

     How much superior to the inhabitants of Jackson, Miss., who fled from their city (1898) because three cases of yellow fever were discovered, were the inhabitants of Munich, Germany, who, in 1874, with 260 deaths from Cholera Asiatica in one day and 14,000 deaths during the ten weeks of epidemic, did not even close the schools, theaters, hotels, in fact continued on living as civilizedly and bravely as in normal times?

   • 1899, Mina Holt, The Satyr: A Novel of Love and Passion: Reflecting Modern Social Organization, London, New York, N.Y.: F. Tennyson Neely, page 317:

     So we will stick to the proprieties of our times, and civilizedly robe you for your bridal night.

   • 2011, Tomas Sedlacek, “The History of Animal Spirits: The Dream Never Sleeps”, in Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street, Oxford University Press, part II (Blasphemous Thoughts), page 282:

     We may live civilizedly in the city, wear ties and read statistics, but we all carry our animal spirits within us.