nonce-wd. [f. CIVILIZE v., after crusade, blockade, cannonade, etc.: see -ADE.] A crusade in the interest of civilization.
1859. Mill, Liberty, iv. 166. A recent writer … proposes (to use his own words) not a crusade, but a civilizade, against this polygamous community, to put an end to what seems to him a retrograde step in civilization.
1872. Contemp. Rev., XIX. 660. Mr. Mill … went on to stigmatize … any ‘civilizade’ against that institution.
