adv. [UN-1 11.] In an uncivil manner; not in accordance with civility; roughly, rudely; † barbarously.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades, II. v. (1592), 150. Al vertue … is vtterly ouerthrown,… virgins defiled, matrones vnciuilly dealt withall.

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1581.  Pettie, trans. Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., I. (1586), 22. I must first aske if you know anie citizen which liueth unciuillie.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, 897. He was loth to converse there uncivilly, at so unseasonable a time.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2), I. i. 3. When he brake forth as desperately as before he had done uncivilly.

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1676.  Shadwell, Libertine, III. Ha! ’tis uncivilly done to leave a man in a strange country.

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1798.  Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 51. Some English soldiers storm the ale-house, and are proceeding to behave somewhat uncivilly to Joan and her sister.

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1825.  Scott, Betrothed, xvii. Turning sternly on the huntsman, as one who has been hastily and uncivilly roused from a reverie.

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1888.  Freeman, Four Oxford Lect., ii. 99. Those Breton followers of Ralph of Wader whom Lanfranc so uncivilly called ‘filth.’

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