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re-ˈcultivate, v.
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. recultiver (Cotgr.).]
trans. To cultivate anew. Also fig.
c1645Howell Lett. i. v. ii, A Field that remains fallow for a time..yields a better Crop, being recultivated. 1833S. Austin Charact. Goethe II. 331 Desolate scenes which the liveliest imagination were unable to recultivate and repeople. 1857Trollope Barchester T. III. iv. 61 He had meant, if possible, to recultivate his friendship with Eleanor.
So re-cultiˈvation.
1850Proc. Philol. Soc. IV. 208 It is now just about a hundred years ago that Klopstock paved the way to the recultivation of German. 1857Trollope Barchester T. III. iv. 61 In his present state of mind any such re-cultivation must have ended in a declaration of love. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 237 The balance of time to re-cultivation and fresh harvest. |