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Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.]
To cultivate; to educate.
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They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.
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Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." --Shenstone.
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2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;
refined; well-educated.
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The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured
people, is less often met with than other mental
endowments. --I. Taylor.
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The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
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