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verb

Cultivate v. t. (past & past part. cultivated; pres. part. cultivating)

1.

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

2.

To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. "Leisure... to cultivate general literature."

3.

To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. "I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly."

4.

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. "To cultivate the wild, licentious savage." "The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end."

5.

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

adjective

cultivated adj.

1.

Marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.

Synonyms: civilized, cultured, genteel, polite.

2.

Used for raising crops; of land or soil.

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Etymology of 'Cultivated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultivated" Quotes from Famous Books

... narrowly watching us, and imitating the way he saw us eat. He told us a great deal about his country, the progress it had made during the last few years since the inhabitants had become Christians and wars had ceased; the roads that had been constructed, the houses built, the fields cultivated, and horses and cattle introduced. He described their astonishment on first seeing a large animal, a mule, which they supposed to be an enormous dog, and accordingly gave it an appropriate name. In return for the civility we had shown him ...

— The Cruise of the Dainty - Rovings in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston

... character better than Walter Fetherston. To him the minds of most men and women he met were as an open book. To a marvellous degree had he cultivated his power of reading the inner working of the mind by the expression in the eyes and on the faces of even those hard-headed diplomats and men of business whom, in his second character of Mr. Maltwood, he so frequently met. Few men or women could tell him a deliberate lie without ...

— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux

... Pope. He had a fondness for poetry, and was not destitute of taste. His manners were expressive of a tenderness and benevolence, the demonstrations of which appeared to have been somewhat too artificially cultivated. His habits were those of a perfect recluse. He seldom went out of his drawing-room, and he showed to a friend of Mary a pair of shoes, which had served him, he said, for fourteen years. Mary frequently spent days and weeks together, at the house ...

— Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman • William Godwin

... represented both sexes, all ages, all complexions, and all classes of the population, from poor Cuban or negro women carrying huge bundles on their heads and leading three or four half-naked children, to cultivated, delicately nurtured, English-speaking ladies, wading through the mud in bedraggled white gowns, carrying nothing, perhaps, except a kitten or a cage of pet birds. Many of them were so ill and weak from dysentery or malarial ...

— Campaigning in Cuba • George Kennan

... been so long sentient that the spirit of freedom must be roused by violence. It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer! By the duty we owe to justice and liberty throughout the world, by the natural pride of men, by the cultivated honor of gentlemen, it is not fit that we bear the shame longer! ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

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