civil a DARE ~ a 2 for sense 1, 1 for sense 3.
   1 1986 Them Days xi (4), 59 We left St Anthony the following Monday morning. It was quite civil, though a grey morning.
   2 1988 ELLIOTT [19] "Going Up Shore": The sea was one blue and the sky another,/As civil a day as I ever saw in my life.

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