Part 5433

<hw>Hu*man`i*ta"ri*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Humanity</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Theol. & Ch. Hist.)</fld> <def>One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.</def> <mark>[Recent]</mark>

<h1>Humanitarianism</h1> <Xpage=712>

<hw>Hu*man`i*ta"ri*an*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Theol. & Ch. Hist.)</fld> <def>The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations.</def>

<h1>Humanitian</h1> <Xpage=712>

<hw>Hu`ma*ni"tian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A humanist.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Humanity</h1> <Xpage=712>

<hw>Hu*man"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Humanities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>humanitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>humanit\'82</ets>. See <er>Human</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Mankind collectively; the human race.</def>

<blockquote>But hearing oftentimes The still, and music <b>humanity</b>. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is a debt we owe to <b>humanity</b>. <i>S. S. Smith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.</def> "The common offices of <i>humanity</i> and friendship."

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.</def>

<blockquote>Polished with <b>humanity</b> and the study of witty science. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

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

<note>&hand; The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and arch\'91ology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called <i>liter\'91 humaniores</i>, or, in English, the <i>humanities</i>, . . . by way of opposition to the <i>liter\'91 divin\'91</i>, or divinity.</note>

<i>G. P. Marsh.</i>

<h1>Humanization</h1> <Xpage=712>

<hw>Hu*man`i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of humanizing.</def>

<i>M. Arnold.</i>

<h1>Humanize</h1> <Xpage=712>

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

<blockquote>Was it the business of magic to <b>humanize</b> our natures with compassion? <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To give a human character or expression to.</def> "<i>Humanized</i> divinities."