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/kˈəltʃərd/ Listen

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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... days, weeks, and perhaps months, and then put forth intense and prolonged effort in dance, hunt, warfare, migration, or construction, sometimes dispensing with sleep and manifesting remarkable endurance. As civilization and specialization advance, hours become regular. The cultured man is less desultory in all his habits, from eating and sleeping to performing social and religious duties, although he may put forth no more aggregate energy in a year than the savage. Women are schooled to regular work long before men, and the difficulty of imposing civilization upon ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... that a great drawback to life in Rohar would be the lack of feminine companionship; for the ladies of his regiment were not at all congenial, although he did not dislike them. But it was delightful to find in this desert spot this pretty and cultured woman, who would have been deemed attractive in London and who appeared trebly so in a dull and lonely Indian station. He had thought much of her since their meeting on the previous day; and although it never occurred to him to lose his heart to her or even attempt to flirt with her, yet he ...

— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly

... the fellow is—is not absolutely unspeakable! I should never have thought it of you, Genevieve, nor of such a thorough gentleman as Lord Avondale—gentleman in our sense of the term,— refined, cultured, and clean. Were he one of the gentry who have reasons for leaving England,—who go West and consort with ruffians— remittance men—But no. Lady Chetwynd assured me he has been presented at Court, and you know ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... hollowly. It was a cultured voice, and there was a refinement to his face that registered on Dave's mind even over the horror of the weapon. "The fools cannot hold the shell. But neither shall they delay its breaking. Dead ...

— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey

... fortune which few could venture to despise. And Henrietta had now few opportunities to brood over the past; a stream of beautiful and sublime objects passed unceasingly before her vision. Her lively and refined taste, and her highly cultured mind, could not refrain from responding to these glorious spectacles. She saw before her all that she had long read of, all that she had long mused over. Her mind became each day more serene and harmonious as she gazed on these ideal creations, ...

— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

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