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Cultivated   /kˈəltəvˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
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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... from a letter of Madame de Fressense, dated Paris, July 18, 1882, will show what impression the work made not only upon the gifted and accomplished writer, but upon many other of the most cultivated Christian women of ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... windings and twistings of the various streams, the tracts of unreclaimed forest, and the cultivated fields. Asterabad and numerous villages dot the plain, and by taking R———'s binoculars we can make out, through the vaporous atmosphere, the shimmering surface of the Caspian Sea. It is one of the most remarkable views I ever ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... the eastern bank, which mainly we followed during the first six hours of riding, there were craggy cliffs, covered with forests, which at intervals were cleft by deep ravines, where small farms clung to the sides of the steep hills. On the opposite shore cultivated lands extended from the limit of one's vision down almost to the water. There they met a continuous chain of manufacturing plants, now all idle, which stretched along the river shore from end to end of the valley. Culm and flume and stack and kiln succeeded one another ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... applications; in Mesmer's hands it was, in its relation to the future, merely what cause is to effect. But, if the discoverer lacked genius, it is a sad thing both for France and for human reason to have to say that a science contemporaneous with civilization, cultivated by Egypt and Chaldea, by Greece and India, met in Paris in the eighteenth century the fate that Truth in the person of Galileo found in the sixteenth; and that magnetism was rejected and cast out by the combined attacks of science and religion, alarmed ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac
... became a fashion it was the writer's privilege to meet a county physician who had cultivated for himself a critical picture sense. The lines of his circuit lay among the pleasantest of pastoral scenes. Stimulated by their beauty it became his habit, as he travelled, to mark off the pictures of his route, to note where two ran together, to decide what details were unnecessary, or where, ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore


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