civic

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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civic (ˈsɪvɪk)

—*adj*
	of or relating to a city, citizens, or citizenship: civic duties

[C16: from Latin cīvicus, from cīvis citizen]

'civically

—*adv*

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civic

1542, from L. civicus "of a citizen," adj. derivation of civis "townsman."

Example sentences

You've been asked to increase civic activity in your community.

The new mayors will be able to knock heads together, and their ability to attract media attention will help to foster civic pride.

There is much to enjoy in the new wing and much cause for civic pride.

Now civic groups and native organizations are pushing governments and the courts to rein in oil development.

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"It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior."

-Antonin Artaud