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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1717

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†CIVILS, n.pl. Civil matters (as distinguished from criminal). Obs. earlier in Eng., last Eng. quot. in N.E.D. 1676.Sc. 1717 R. Wodrow Corresp. (1843) II. 319:
Arbitrary Government in civils, and persecution for matters of conscience.

[D.O.S.T. gives civil, adj., from 1400, and ellipt. as noun = civil law, from c.1420.]

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