Cul·ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cultured p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.] To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. --Usher.
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Cul·tured a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. “Cultured vales.”
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. --I. Taylor.
The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
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cultured
adj : marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a
genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized,
civilised, cultivated, genteel, polite]