Human
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Belonging to man or mankind; pertaining or relating to the race of man; as a human voice; human shape; human nature; human knowledge; human life.
2. Having the qualities of a man.
3.
Profane; not sacred or divine; as a human author. [Not in use.]
Human
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
Humane
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Having the feelings and dispositions proper to man; having tenderness,
compassion, and a disposition to treat others with kindness; particularly in
relieving them when in distress, or in captivity, when they are helpless or
defenseless; kind;
benevolent.
2. Inclined to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness.
Humane
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Pertaining to man; human.
2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind;
benevolent.
Humanely
[Adverb]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. With kindness, tenderness or
compassion; as, the prisoners were treated humanely
2. In a
humane manner; with kind feelings.
Humanics
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
The study of human nature.
Humanism
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Human nature or disposition; humanity.
Humanist
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. A professor of grammar and rhetoric; a
philologist; a term used in the universities of Scotland.
2. One versed in the knowledge of human nature.
Humanist
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
3. One versed in knowledge of human nature.
1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.
2. Pertaining to
polite kiterature.
1. Pertaining to humanitarians, or to
humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
2. Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the
perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
1. One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
2. One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the
exclusion or
disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
1. The distinctive
tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
2. The doctrine that man's obligations are limited to, and dependent alone upon, man and the human relations.
Humanity
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. The peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Thus Christ, by his
incarnation, was invested
2. with humanity
4. If he is able to
untie those knots, he is able to teach all humanity
5. It is a debt we owe to humanity
6. The kind feelings, dispositions and
sympathies of man, by which he is distinguished from the lower orders of animals; kindness;
benevolence; especially, a disposition to
relieve persons in distress, and to treat with tenderness those who are helpless and
defenseless; opposed to cruelty.
7. A disposition to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness, or at least to give them no unnecessary pain.
8. The exercise of kindness; acts of tenderness.
10.
Humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric and poetry; for teaching which there are professors in the universities of Scotland.
Humanity
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
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.
4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and
polite literature.
5. The branches of
polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
Humanize
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
2. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures?
Humanize
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Humanize
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. To render human or
humane; to
soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or
civilize.
2. To give a human character or expression to.
3. To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize
vaccine lymph.