Definition of "civiliser" [civiliser]

• Alternative form of civilizer. (noun)

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• ""The ANC will be shocked to discover that the Afrikaner nation, with its history as the civiliser of southern Africa ... will not allow this," the CP said."
• "But in general the Church, as the civiliser of nations, disdained such old wives 'tales."
• "This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little wit goes a great way, as we may see by the following story told in Pasquil's "Jests," 1604."