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verb

Culture v. t. (past & past part. cultured; pres. part. culturing) To cultivate; to educate. "They came... into places well inhabited and cultured."

adjective

Cultured adj.

Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales."

Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. "The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments." "The cunning hand and cultured brain."

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Etymology of 'Cultured'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultured" Quotes from Famous Books

... heat, to combat death from disease by seeking medical aid, to avoid destruction by man or brute by fight or by flight. The instinct to propagate the species leads brute man by crude methods, and cultured man by methods more refined, to put out of his way sex rivals so that his own life may be continued through offspring. The life of the species is further assured by the protective action exercised over the young by the adults of the species. As soon ...

— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

... we found, was Zyobor. It was a perfect little community. There were artisans and thinkers, artists and laborers—all alike in being physically perfect beyond belief and cultured as no race on top ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... at sarcasm which is essentially the weapon of a cultured man, are crude. First, my attainments, my classical and literary knowledge, blurred, perhaps, by immoderate drinking—which reminds me that before my soul went to the Gods last night, I sold the Pickering ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... and gently laid his hands upon Livingstone's cheeks. It was enough; the chill of death was there. The great father of Africa's dark children was dead, and they were orphans. The most refined and cultured Englishmen would have been perplexed as to what course to take. They were surrounded by superstitious and unsympathetic savages, to whom the unburied remains of the dead man would be an object of dread. His native land was six thousand ...

— Stories Worth Rereading • Various

... before his name you could hoop a hogshead with. "And that woman," exclaimed Aunt Martha, when she was under full sail, "that woman, because she has two bookcases in the front room and reads the book-reviews in the Delineator, thinks that she is cultured. When her folks first came to town they were as poor as Job's turkey, which was not to their discredit—everyone was poor in those days. The old man Neal was as honest an old Mick as you'd meet in a day's journey, or ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

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