Hypertext Webster Gateway: "civilise"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
civilise
v 1: train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment;
"Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds";
"She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school},
{train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}]
2: make a country technologically advanced; "Many countries in
Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is
modernizing rapidly" [syn: {civilize}, {modernize}, {modernise},
{develop}]
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