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- The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
Chpt 1cultivate = enhance growth or development of
- —for the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far from the ground, and are not treated like the humbler esculents, which, though they may be biennials, are cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut down at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering season.
Chpt 1cultivated = cared for
- ... a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper.
Chpt 1cultivated = developed or enhanced
- Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
Chpt 1cultivated = enhanced in taste or judgment
- I put no manure whatever on this land, not being the owner, but merely a squatter, and not expecting to cultivate so much again, and I did not quite hoe it all once.
Chpt 1cultivate = prepare for growing crops
- I learned from the experience of both years ... that if one would live simply and eat only the crop which he raised, and raise no more than he ate, and not exchange it for an insufficient quantity of more luxurious and expensive things, he would need to cultivate only a few rods of ground, and that it would be cheaper to spade up that than to use oxen to plow it, and to select a fresh spot from time to time than to manure the old, and he could do all his necessary farm work as it were with his left hand at odd hours in the summer;
Chpt 1cultivate = prepare and maintain for growing crops
- As for a habitat, if I were not permitted still to squat, I might purchase one acre at the same price for which the land I cultivated was sold—namely, eight dollars and eight cents.
Chpt 1cultivated = prepared and maintained for growing crops
- I walked over each farmer's premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it—took everything but a deed of it—took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to talk—cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on.
Chpt 2cultivated = developed or enhanced
- All that I could say, then, with respect to farming on a large scale—I have always cultivated a garden—was, that I had had my seeds ready.
Chpt 2cultivated = developed and maintained
- As the nobleman of cultivated taste surrounds himself with whatever conduces to his culture—genius—learning—wit—books—paintings—statuary—music—philosophical instruments, and the like; so let the village do—not stop short at a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish library, and three selectmen, because our Pilgrim forefathers got through a cold winter once on a bleak rock with these.†
Chpt 3cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Beside, there were wafted to me evidences of unexplored and uncultivated continents on the other side.†
Chpt 6uncultivated = 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.
- It was the only open and cultivated field for a great distance on either side of the road,
Chpt 7 *cultivated = developed for growing crops
- Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field.†
Chpt 7cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field.†
Chpt 7
- They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Rans des Vaches for them.†
Chpt 7
- It was a singular experience that long acquaintance which I cultivated with beans, what with planting, and hoeing, and harvesting, and threshing, and picking over and selling them—the last was the hardest of all—I might add eating, for I did taste.†
Chpt 7
- Consider the intimate and curious acquaintance one makes with various kinds of weeds—it will bear some iteration in the account, for there was no little iteration in the labor—disturbing their delicate organizations so ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, and sedulously cultivating another.†
Chpt 7cultivating = developing, growing, or preparing to grow crops
- Cato says that the profits of agriculture are particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according to Varro the old Romans "called the same earth Mother and Ceres, and thought that they who cultivated it led a pious and useful life, and that they alone were left of the race of King Saturn."†
Chpt 7cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- We are wont to forget that the sun looks on our cultivated fields and on the prairies and forests without distinction.†
Chpt 7
- In his view the earth is all equally cultivated like a garden.†
Chpt 7
- There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it.†
Chpt 9
- Under a high state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains of men!†
Chpt 9cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- Cultivation has well-nigh exterminated it.†
Chpt 13
- Michaux, more than thirty years ago, says that the price of wood for fuel in New York and Philadelphia "nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, that of the best wood in Paris, though this immense capital annually requires more than three hundred thousand cords, and is surrounded to the distance of three hundred miles by cultivated plains."†
Chpt 13cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.†
Chpt 18cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- Old Cato, whose "De Re Rustica" is my "Cultivator," says—and the only translation I have seen makes sheer nonsense of the passage—"When you think of getting a farm turn it thus in your mind, not to buy greedily; nor spare your pains to look at it, and do not think it enough to go round it once.†
Chpt 2
- They lay mingled with other natural stones, some of which bore the marks of having been burned by Indian fires, and some by the sun, and also bits of pottery and glass brought hither by the recent cultivators of the soil.†
Chpt 7
- Beans for seed......3.12+ Potatoes for seed......1.33 Peas for seed......0.40 Turnip seed......0.06 White line for crow fence......0.02 Horse cultivator and boy three hours......1.00 Horse and cart to get crop......0.75 ———— In all......$14.72+ My income was (patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet), from Nine bushels and twelve quarts of beans sold...$16.94 Five " large potatoes......2.50 Nine " small......2.25 Grass......1.00 Stalks......0.75 ——— In all......$23.44 Leaving a pecuniary profit, as I have elsewhere said, of......$ 8.71+ This is the result of my experience in raising beans: Plant the common small white bush bean about the first of June, in rows three feet by eighteen†
Chpt 7
- This broad field which I have looked at so long looks not to me as the principal cultivator, but away from me to influences more genial to it, which water and make it green.†
Chpt 7
- In the winter of '46-7 there came a hundred men of Hyperborean extraction swoop down on to our pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming tools—sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described in the New-England Farmer or the Cultivator.†
Chpt 16
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.