All 8 Uses
cultivate
in
Man And Superman
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- Cultivate a little impudence, Ramsden; and you will become quite a remarkable man.†
Chpt 1 *cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- English life seems to him to suffer from a lack of edifying rhetoric (which he calls moral tone); English behavior to show a want of respect for womanhood; English pronunciation to fail very vulgarly in tackling such words as world, girl, bird, etc.; English society to be plain spoken to an extent which stretches occasionally to intolerable coarseness; and English intercourse to need enlivening by games and stories and other pastimes; so he does not feel called upon to acquire these defects after taking great paths to cultivate himself in a first rate manner before venturing across the Atlantic.†
Chpt 2
- Rolling slopes of brown, with olive trees instead of apple trees in the cultivated patches, and occasional prickly pears instead of gorse and bracken in the wilds.†
Chpt 3cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Our souls being entirely damned, we cultivate our hearts.†
Chpt 3cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- And the classical concert is admitted to be a higher, more cultivated, poetic, intellectual, ennobling place than the racecourse.†
Chpt 3cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Then came the romantic man, the Artist, with his love songs and his paintings and his poems; and with him I had great delight for many years, and some profit; for I cultivated my senses for his sake; and his songs taught me to hear better, his paintings to see better, and his poems to feel more deeply.†
Chpt 3
- I know that to be well exercised in these sensations, emotions, and studies is to be a refined and cultivated being.†
Chpt 3
- [bitterly] So this is the high-born social tone I've spoilt by my ignorant, uncultivated behavior†
Chpt 3uncultivated = not developedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncultivated means not and reverses the meaning of cultivated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.