Civil List
    n 1: a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for
         the expenses of the British royal family

List \List\, n. [AS. l[imac]st a list of cloth; akin to D.
   lijst, G. leiste, OHG. l[imac]sta, Icel. lista, listi, Sw.
   list, Dan. liste. In sense 5 from F. liste, of German origin,
   and thus ultimately the same word.]
   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." --Shak.
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   2. A limit or boundary; a border.
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            The very list, the very utmost bound,
            Of all our fortunes.                  --Shak.
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   3. The lobe of the ear; the ear itself. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   4. A stripe. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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   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.
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            He was the ablest emperor of all the list. --Bacon.
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   6. (Arch.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also
      listel.
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   7. (Carp.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the
      edge of a plank or board.
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   8. (Rope Making) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns
      are grasped by a workman.
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   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.
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   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.

   Syn: Roll; catalogue; register; inventory; schedule.

   Usage: 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.
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Civil \Civ"il\, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil.
   See City.]
   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.
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   2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not
      barbarous; -- said of the community.
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            England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but
            even the other day since England grew civil.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   3. Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to
      government; -- said of an individual.
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            Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others;
            they come within a step or two of heaven. --Preston
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   4. Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed
      to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous;
      complaisant; affable.
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   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.'" --Trench
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   5. Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from
      military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
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   6. Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit
      distinct from criminal proceedings.
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   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. The sum which is yearly paid by the state to its monarch, and 
the domains of which he is suffered to have the enjoyment.