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/kˈəltəvˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Cultivate v. t. (past & past part. cultivated; pres. part. cultivating)

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. "Leisure... to cultivate general literature."

To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. "I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly."

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. "To cultivate the wild, licentious savage." "The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end."

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

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Etymology of 'Cultivate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultivate" Quotes from Famous Books

... brief response, when she had suggested varying the colours in order to cultivate the aesthetic instinct ...

— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black

... Certainly you should try it. You should also cultivate less and slow down the growth. If they then take to bearing, you can resume moderate pruning and better cultivation. This is on the assumption that your trees are in too rich or too moist a place. But you should satisfy yourself by inquiry ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... in a little time there would not be one sol owing. Afterwards embracing the Swedish Ambassador with great cordiality, he begged of him in the name of polite learning, which they both professed to cultivate, to do all in his power for the advantage of the common cause, especially with the English: and, to efface the remembrance of the ill treatment Grotius had received, he told him with a smile, that the French were often ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

... Santo Domingo became favorite resorts for such ships. The depot of the corsairs on the island of St. Christopher having been destroyed by the Spaniards in 1630, a number of refugees sought shelter on the island of Tortuga, on the northwest coast of Haiti. Some of them began to cultivate the soil, others took to hunting wild cattle on the mainland of Haiti, while others indulged in piracy. Tortuga soon became the busy headquarters of reckless freebooters of all nations, who here fitted out daring expeditions and returned to waste their gains in wild carousals. In 1638 the ...

— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

... the soil. There are, however, many obstacles to progress. For political reasons the Government discourages immigration from other countries, and therefore the untilled lands will have to be idle until there is a sufficiently large population to cultivate them. The Roumanian peasant is very conservative and slow to move, but improved communication, modern implements, the encouragement given to agricultural training, and last, but not least, the competition of the Western States ...

— Roumania Past and Present • James Samuelson

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