Humanities, and so forth

HU'MAN-IST, n.

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. Shaftesbury.

HU-MAN-I-TA'RI-AN, n. [L. humanus, humanitas.]

One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to be a mere man.

HU-MAN'I-TY, n. [L. humanitas; Fr. humanité.]

1. The peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Thus Christ, by his incarnation, was invested with humanity.
2. Mankind collectively; the human race. If he is able to untie those knots, he is able to teach all humanity. [Unusual.] Glanville. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.
3. 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.
4. A disposition to treat the lower orders of animals with tenderness, or at least to give them no unnecessary pain.
5. The exercise of kindness; acts of tenderness.
6. Philology; grammatical studies. Johnson. Humanities, in the plural, signifies grammar, rhetoric and poetry; for teaching which there are professors in the universities of Scotland. Encyc.

HU-MAN-I-ZA'TION, n.

The act of humanizing.

HU'MAN-IZE, v.t.

To soften; to render humane; to subdue dispositions to cruelty, and render susceptible of kind feelings. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures? Addison. Witherspoon.

HU'MAN-IZ-ED, pp.

Softened; rendered humane.

HU'MAN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Softening; subduing cruel dispositions.