All 14 Uses
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- Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid.†
Chpt 2. *cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.†
Chpt 3.
- [249] Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession†
Chpt 3.cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.†
Chpt 3.cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Or why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman, and think, because Sappho,[359] or Sévigné,[360] or De Staël,[361] or the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation, do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis,[362] none can,—certainly not she.†
Chpt 5.cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the qualities are fluxional, and the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.†
Chpt 6.
- Fine manners[398] show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.†
Chpt 6.uncultivated = 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.
- These forms very soon become fixed, and a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with more heed, that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.†
Chpt 6.cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Fashion is made up of their children; of those, who, through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired lustre to their name, marks of distinction, means of cultivation and generosity, and, in their physical organization, a certain health and excellence, which secures to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.†
Chpt 6.cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- Yet, so long as it is the highest circle, in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it; for it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous; and the respect which these mysteries inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.†
Chpt 6.cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Coleridge[616] and Goethe[617] are the only critics who have expressed our convictions with any adequate fidelity; but there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of his superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.†
Chpt 9.
- Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with parties can name every figure: this is Andrew, and that is Rachael.†
Chpt 9.
- Cultivated men always feel and speak so as if a great fortune, the achievement of a civil or social measure, great personal influence, a graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.†
Chpt 10.
- If a man lose his balance and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin,[664] but he is not a cultivated man.†
Chpt 10.
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.