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During the week that preceded the making of the packet she observed a strict regimen and cultivated the city assiduously for material.†
Chpt 2 *

cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely-read could be said to know that they were unhappy.†
Chpt 4
For this distinction he cultivated his own definition of love that was like no other and that had gathered all its bitterness and pride from his odd life.†
Chpt 4
In society she cultivated a delicate and languid magdelinism, as a great lady might, and she carried a candle in the penitential parades, side by side with ladies who had nothing to regret but an outburst of temper and a furtive glance into Descartes.†
Chpt 4
The bookseller of the town reported that she was one of the three most cultivated persons in Lima.†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (cultivate)
enhance growth or development
in 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
(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.