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Polished with humanity and the study of witty science.

Holland.

5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archÊology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literÊ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literÊ divinÊ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.

Hu*man`i*za"tion (?), n. The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.

Hu"man*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing (?).] [Cf. F. humaniser.] 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.

Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?

Addison.

2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities." Caird.

3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Hu"man*ize, v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.

By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.

Franklin.

Hu"man*i`zer (?), n. One who renders humane.

Hu"man*kind` (?), n. Mankind. Pope.

Hu"man*ly, adv. 1. In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. Kindly; humanely. [Obs.] Pope.

Hu"man*ness, n. The quality or state of being human.

Hu"mate (?), n. [L. humus the earth, ground.] (Chem.) A salt of humic acid.

Hu*ma"tion (?), n. [L. humatio, fr. humare to cover with earth, to inter, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage.] Interment; inhumation. [R.]

Hum"bird` (?), n. Humming bird.

Hum"ble (?), a. [Compar. Humbler (?); superl. Humblest (?).] [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, and cf. Chameleon, Humiliate.] 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

THy humble nest built on the ground.

Cowley.

2. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Jas. iv. 6.

She should be humble who would please.