cultivatedadj.

Brit.

/ˈkʌltᵻveɪtᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈkəltəˌveɪdᵻd/

Forms: see cultivate v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cultivate v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < cultivate v. + -ed suffix¹.Compare French cultivé, adjective (1538 in Middle French in sense ‘refined, cultured’).

1. Of land or soil: subjected to cultivation; tilled.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated

wroughtOE

subact?1440

laboured1470

tilled1546

well-cultured1555

well-laboured1571

husbanded1578

toiled1578

well-husbanded1581

cultive1611

improved1617

cultivated1622

well-cultivated1650

manured1746

well-farmed1770

reduced1794

farmed1800

tillaged1854

tilthed1866

tame1887

1622 J. Bonoeil Treat. Art of making Silke 67 in King James VI & I Gracious Let. to Earle of South-Hampton Neither yet is it to bee thought, that any cultiuated Country in the world, though neuer so fruitfull, had all things at first there naturally growing in it, as now it hath.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 11 This little Isle..is..almost all cultivated, though it be mountanous.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Kitchin-Garden-Earth A strong cultivated Soil should be pitch'd upon.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 86 It is..frequently seen in cultivated grounds.

1810 M. F. Johnson Orig. Sonnets sig. B10^v Now reeking toil..rules sovereign of the cultivated plain.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 199/2 The probability is that after the present growing crop is got in, a large breadth of the cultivated land will have to be abandoned.

1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) vii. 226 Further experiments were made in which the plants were grown in sterile sand, but as soon as the stage of nitrogen hunger was reached, a small portion of a watery extract of ordinary cultivated soil was added.

1986 R. A. Jamieson Thin Wealth 146 Below the township of Glimmerwick, on the slope down to the shore, the cultivated fields lay dormant.

2010 New Statesman 25 Jan. 24/3 The Russians eventually learned to fight effectively in the mountains and in..the cultivated valleys.

a. Of plants: subjected to cultivation; produced or improved by cultivation. Also: of or relating to such plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > cultivated or planted

gentle?1440

plantedc1450

husbandly1550

tame1551

manured1562

domestical1578

sative1599

mild1601

cultivated1634

hortala1704

sativous1786

farmed1897

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. iii. 1031 Ruta sylvestris. This, as all wilde and not cultivated things, becomes more strong and acride than the Garden Rue.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 64 They are watered in times of Drought as other cultivated Vegetables there by Artificial Channels from Rivers.

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. iv. 10 To hinder weeds from robbing the cultivated plants.

1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 93 In general appearance, this plant [sc. the wild oat] resembles exactly the cultivated oat.

1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 639 Dioscorea sativa. Cultivated Dioscorea, or Yam.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 193 Flowering shrubs, and all manner of cultivated beauty.

1908 Gardeners' Chron. 25 Jan. 56/3 In the F₂ generation the cultivated characters may reappear, though in a modified form.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 779/1 Euploidy (regular multiplication of the basic chromosome number) is characteristic of cultivated apples.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 44/2 (caption) Teosinte, a wild grass, is one of the ancestors of the cultivated corn that made possible the growth of cities and cultures of ancient Mexico.

2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 61/1 We're accustomed to seeing red and purple beetroot, but the first cultivated beets were actually a light yellow.

b. Of fish or shellfish: raised or bred under human direction or control; farmed.

ΚΠ

1713 R. North Disc. Fish & Fish-ponds xii. 39 I do yet believe, that a Sort of Fish, bred in great Numbers in bad Waters, over-stock'd, and almost starv'd, may in Process of Time degenerate, and both lose a good Shape, and be less apt to grow up to a due Greatness, than others that have been better descended of a cultivated Stock.

1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. vii. iii. 1057 The taking of cultivated fish is generally done with nets.

1894 Standard 10 Feb. 6/7 ‘Scauped’, or cultivated mussels.

1973 Irish Times 21 June 14/6 Denmark can market cultivated trout in the U.S.A.

1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 195/2 This local aquaculture project is North America's largest cultivated mussel farm.

c. = cultured adj. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > culturing

cultivated1881

cultured1884

cultural1889

subcultured1901

1881 Lancet 30 July 185/2 The fact that animals resist inoculation renders the identification of the cultivated bacteria a matter of some uncertainty.

1886 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 29 May 662/1 Two pigs inoculated with cultivated organisms contracted the plague, and died within a week.

1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xxviii. 100 The yeasts which are regularly employed in brewing and baking are usually termed ‘domesticated’ or cultivated.

1971 Nature 19 Mar. 152/2 The transformation of cultivated animal cells by the small DNA tumour viruses SV40 and polyoma virus.

2008 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 36 Cultivated tissues are still insufficient and too small to be used to treat stroke patients.

a. Of a person or society: improved by education or training; refined; = cultured adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > cultured

polite1601

improved1617

cultivated1645

well-cultured1760

cultured1777

high-minded1827

highbrow1908

kulturny1955

1645 D. North Forest of Varieties iii. 190 I have..judged common delights too base and bestiall for a cultivated soule.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense Let. Aristotle 81 in Scepsis Scientifica In the latter and less cultivated ages.

1753 R. Hurd Serm. Trinity Church 13 A rich and cultivated people, as we are, abounding in all the arts of life.

1779 Mirror No. 13 The varied objects which present themselves in cultivated society.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. i. 6 The most cultivated men in the most cultivated of Italian cities.

1944 C. Beaton Diary 29 Oct. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xv. 152 Johnnie Lucinge, so highly cultivated and kind, told in his rich, plummy accent, how one never knew if the ringing of a doorbell portended the last moment of liberty.

1952 D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan iv. 73 The authors..can dramatize folk comedy by contrasting it with the standards of cultivated society.

2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 93 Cultivated people are repelled by the idea of keeping up with the Joneses.

b. Of a quality, action, etc.: characteristic of or befitting such a person; indicating refinement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech

minced?1542

haw-haw1841

plummy1881

cultivated1908

pan-loafy1946

pan-loaf1947

1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. ix. iii. 135 It must needs be said in his commendations, that he had wit in abundance, a wit in fashion, a cultivated wit.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 31 The different Operations of this Passion of Love in the gentle and cultivated Mind of the Lady Booby.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 189 A cultivated understanding, a copious fancy.

1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xviii. 190 There are really and truly such phenomena cognizable by a cultivated perception.

1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. ii. 24 His cultivated tastes.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 8/1 The prisoner is a well set-up and well-dressed man with a cultivated voice.

1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 76 And many a cultivated hour they pass In a fine school.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 28 Sept. 152/1 He speaks in a cultivated, elocution-class accent.

4. Of a reputation, attitude, image, etc.: consciously developed, adopted, or projected (sometimes with implication of affectation). Frequently with modifying adverb.

ΚΠ

1856 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 52 A natural or cultivated indifference as to the degree in which they approach, or deflect from, a true and universal idea of humanity.

1870 Amer. Observer Sept. 442 There is a probability of adding to your carefully-cultivated reputation if you can possibly grow up to the comprehension of the said essay.

1915 Washington Post 23 May 16/7 The assiduously cultivated hatred of England.

1968 Life 13 Dec. 50/2 He works hard to promote the image of the cold, calculating producer..yet he can be wounded by the fact that people take the cultivated image seriously.

2006 Fast Company May 79/2 Superfly's carefully cultivated cred has come up against the cold reality of commerce.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cultivated
释义	cultivatedadj. Brit. /ˈkʌltᵻveɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkəltəˌveɪdᵻd/ Forms: see cultivate v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cultivate v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < cultivate v. + -ed suffix¹.Compare French cultivé, adjective (1538 in Middle French in sense ‘refined, cultured’). 1. Of land or soil: subjected to cultivation; tilled. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 1622 J. Bonoeil Treat. Art of making Silke 67 in King James VI & I Gracious Let. to Earle of South-Hampton Neither yet is it to bee thought, that any cultiuated Country in the world, though neuer so fruitfull, had all things at first there naturally growing in it, as now it hath. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 11 This little Isle..is..almost all cultivated, though it be mountanous. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Kitchin-Garden-Earth A strong cultivated Soil should be pitch'd upon. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 86 It is..frequently seen in cultivated grounds. 1810 M. F. Johnson Orig. Sonnets sig. B10^v Now reeking toil..rules sovereign of the cultivated plain. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 199/2 The probability is that after the present growing crop is got in, a large breadth of the cultivated land will have to be abandoned. 1931 A. D. Hall Soil (ed. 4) vii. 226 Further experiments were made in which the plants were grown in sterile sand, but as soon as the stage of nitrogen hunger was reached, a small portion of a watery extract of ordinary cultivated soil was added. 1986 R. A. Jamieson Thin Wealth 146 Below the township of Glimmerwick, on the slope down to the shore, the cultivated fields lay dormant. 2010 New Statesman 25 Jan. 24/3 The Russians eventually learned to fight effectively in the mountains and in..the cultivated valleys. 2. a. Of plants: subjected to cultivation; produced or improved by cultivation. Also: of or relating to such plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > cultivated or planted gentle?1440 plantedc1450 husbandly1550 tame1551 manured1562 domestical1578 sative1599 mild1601 cultivated1634 hortala1704 sativous1786 farmed1897 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. iii. 1031 Ruta sylvestris. This, as all wilde and not cultivated things, becomes more strong and acride than the Garden Rue. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 64 They are watered in times of Drought as other cultivated Vegetables there by Artificial Channels from Rivers. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. iv. 10 To hinder weeds from robbing the cultivated plants. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 93 In general appearance, this plant [sc. the wild oat] resembles exactly the cultivated oat. 1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 639 Dioscorea sativa. Cultivated Dioscorea, or Yam. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 193 Flowering shrubs, and all manner of cultivated beauty. 1908 Gardeners' Chron. 25 Jan. 56/3 In the F₂ generation the cultivated characters may reappear, though in a modified form. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 779/1 Euploidy (regular multiplication of the basic chromosome number) is characteristic of cultivated apples. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 44/2 (caption) Teosinte, a wild grass, is one of the ancestors of the cultivated corn that made possible the growth of cities and cultures of ancient Mexico. 2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 61/1 We're accustomed to seeing red and purple beetroot, but the first cultivated beets were actually a light yellow. b. Of fish or shellfish: raised or bred under human direction or control; farmed. ΚΠ 1713 R. North Disc. Fish & Fish-ponds xii. 39 I do yet believe, that a Sort of Fish, bred in great Numbers in bad Waters, over-stock'd, and almost starv'd, may in Process of Time degenerate, and both lose a good Shape, and be less apt to grow up to a due Greatness, than others that have been better descended of a cultivated Stock. 1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. vii. iii. 1057 The taking of cultivated fish is generally done with nets. 1894 Standard 10 Feb. 6/7 ‘Scauped’, or cultivated mussels. 1973 Irish Times 21 June 14/6 Denmark can market cultivated trout in the U.S.A. 1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 195/2 This local aquaculture project is North America's largest cultivated mussel farm. c. = cultured adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > culturing cultivated1881 cultured1884 cultural1889 subcultured1901 1881 Lancet 30 July 185/2 The fact that animals resist inoculation renders the identification of the cultivated bacteria a matter of some uncertainty. 1886 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 29 May 662/1 Two pigs inoculated with cultivated organisms contracted the plague, and died within a week. 1941 R. Headstrom Adventures with Microscope xxviii. 100 The yeasts which are regularly employed in brewing and baking are usually termed ‘domesticated’ or cultivated. 1971 Nature 19 Mar. 152/2 The transformation of cultivated animal cells by the small DNA tumour viruses SV40 and polyoma virus. 2008 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 36 Cultivated tissues are still insufficient and too small to be used to treat stroke patients. 3. a. Of a person or society: improved by education or training; refined; = cultured adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > cultured polite1601 improved1617 cultivated1645 well-cultured1760 cultured1777 high-minded1827 highbrow1908 kulturny1955 1645 D. North Forest of Varieties iii. 190 I have..judged common delights too base and bestiall for a cultivated soule. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense Let. Aristotle 81 in Scepsis Scientifica In the latter and less cultivated ages. 1753 R. Hurd Serm. Trinity Church 13 A rich and cultivated people, as we are, abounding in all the arts of life. 1779 Mirror No. 13 The varied objects which present themselves in cultivated society. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. i. 6 The most cultivated men in the most cultivated of Italian cities. 1944 C. Beaton Diary 29 Oct. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xv. 152 Johnnie Lucinge, so highly cultivated and kind, told in his rich, plummy accent, how one never knew if the ringing of a doorbell portended the last moment of liberty. 1952 D. Hoffman Paul Bunyan iv. 73 The authors..can dramatize folk comedy by contrasting it with the standards of cultivated society. 2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 93 Cultivated people are repelled by the idea of keeping up with the Joneses. b. Of a quality, action, etc.: characteristic of or befitting such a person; indicating refinement. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech minced?1542 haw-haw1841 plummy1881 cultivated1908 pan-loafy1946 pan-loaf1947 1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. ix. iii. 135 It must needs be said in his commendations, that he had wit in abundance, a wit in fashion, a cultivated wit. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 31 The different Operations of this Passion of Love in the gentle and cultivated Mind of the Lady Booby. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 189 A cultivated understanding, a copious fancy. 1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xviii. 190 There are really and truly such phenomena cognizable by a cultivated perception. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. ii. 24 His cultivated tastes. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 8/1 The prisoner is a well set-up and well-dressed man with a cultivated voice. 1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 76 And many a cultivated hour they pass In a fine school. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 28 Sept. 152/1 He speaks in a cultivated, elocution-class accent. 4. Of a reputation, attitude, image, etc.: consciously developed, adopted, or projected (sometimes with implication of affectation). Frequently with modifying adverb. ΚΠ 1856 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 52 A natural or cultivated indifference as to the degree in which they approach, or deflect from, a true and universal idea of humanity. 1870 Amer. Observer Sept. 442 There is a probability of adding to your carefully-cultivated reputation if you can possibly grow up to the comprehension of the said essay. 1915 Washington Post 23 May 16/7 The assiduously cultivated hatred of England. 1968 Life 13 Dec. 50/2 He works hard to promote the image of the cold, calculating producer..yet he can be wounded by the fact that people take the cultivated image seriously. 2006 Fast Company May 79/2 Superfly's carefully cultivated cred has come up against the cold reality of commerce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1622
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