status civilis

Latin

Noun

status cīvīlis m sg (genitive statūs cīvīlis); fourth declension

1. (New Latin, philosophy) civil society (organized and peaceful society), (literally) the civil state or condition

   Antonym: status nātūrae

   • 1683, Richard Cumberland, De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica […] , page 54:

     Hobbio autem indecorum erat maximè hac in re, vel hoc in loco labi: cùm quia status civilis peculiare privilegium, cuilibet in statu naturali tribuere turpe fuit, etiam tum cùm statuum hujusmodi discrimina accuratissimè tradere præ se fert; […]

     But it was especially shameful for Hobbes to err in this matter, or in this place; for it was disgraceful for him to accord to anyone in the state of nature a peculiar privilege of civil society precisely where he pretends to discuss with the greatest accuracy the difference between these states […]