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a. [ L. humanus; akin to homo man: cf. F. humain. See Homage, and cf. Humane, Omber. ] Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. [ 1913 Webster ]

To err is human; to forgive, divine. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A human being. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sprung of humans that inhabit earth. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

We humans often find ourselves in strange position. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. humanatus. ] Indued with humanity. [ Obs. ] Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. humanus: cf. F. humain. See Human. ] 1. Pertaining to man; human. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination. Sportswood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

Syn. -- Kind; sympathizing; benevolent; mild; compassionate; gentle; tender; merciful.

-- Hu*mane"ly, adv. -- Hu*mane"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The study of human nature. [ R. ] T. W. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as humanization. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. Same as humanize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The study of the humanities; polite learning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A doctrine or ethical point of view that emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejects claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stresses the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. humaniste. ] 1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff-Herzog. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who pursues the study of the humanities, or polite literature. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One versed in knowledge of human nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A person with a strong concern for human welfare, especially one who emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejecting claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stressing the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism; an adherent of humanism. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to polite literature. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, related to, or adhering to, humanism{ 4 }; humanitarian{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Benevolent; philanthropic. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Humanity. ] 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of humans and human societies; a philanthropist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A humanist. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Humanities [ L. humanitas: cf. F. humanité. See Human. ] 1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mankind collectively; the human race. [ 1913 Webster ]

But hearing oftentimes
The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. “The common offices of humanity and friendship.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literæ divinæ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.
Syn. -- humanisation. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ Also spelled humanise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give a human character or expression to. “Humanized divinities.” Caird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who renders humane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mankind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling a human. [ Narrower terms: human (vs. nonhuman) ]
Syn. -- anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kindly; humanely. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being human. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See In- not, and Human. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

Syn. -- Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not humane; lacking and reflecting lack of pity, kindness, or compassion; as, humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world; biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used. [ Narrower terms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious; beastly, bestial, brute(prenominal), brutish, cannibalic ; brutal, cruel; cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate ; pitiless, unfeeling, unkind ; painful (vs. painless) ] Also See: uncivilized. Antonym: humane. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an inhumane manner. [ PJC ]

n. the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others; the quality of being inhumane; inhumanity; -- of people or events.
Syn. -- inhumanity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Inhumanities [ L. inhumanitas: cf. F. inhumanité. ] The quality or state of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty; barbarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not human. Opposite of human. [ Narrower terms: anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike; bloodless; dehumanized, unhuman; grotesque, monstrous, unnatural; mechanical ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. preter- + human. ] More than human. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. trans- + human. ] More than human; superhuman. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not human; inhuman. [ 1913 Webster ]