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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 civilise
 (v.)文明化;教化

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 civilise
      v 1: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate
           your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is
           well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train,
            cultivate, civilize]
      2: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child
         found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
         [syn: civilize]