To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.

To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.

To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.

Having a highly developed society or culture.

Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.

Marked by refinement in taste and manners.