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unˈcultivated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. fig. Of persons, their faculties, etc.: Not improved by education or training; uncultured.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 8 Whereof their uncultivated understandings scarce holding any theory, they are but bad discerners of verity. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 145 Such are the usual products of savage nature! such, the furniture of the uncultivated soul! 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 146 Mr. Dennel was a man as unfavoured by nature as he was uncultivated by art. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 224 He was a coarse, uncultivated man. 1898J. Arch Story of Life 247 Their uncultivated minds were like dark lanterns with a rushlight inside.
b. Of nations, times, etc.: Not improved by culture; uncivilized.
1725Berkeley Proposal Wks. 1871 III. 227 They shew as much natural sense as other uncultivated nations. 1779Mirror No. 13, The rude and uncultivated age in which the poet is supposed to have lived. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India Pref. p. xiii, Tacitus..was certainly not acquainted with the language of our uncultivated ancestors.
2. Of land: Not cultivated or laboured; untilled.
1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia 90 A part of their Soil, of which they make no use, but let it lie idle and uncultivated. 1697Dryden æneis i. 425 It looked a wild uncultivated shore. 1719Swift Hist. Engl. Wks. 1841 I. 555/1 The fields lay uncultivated, all the arts of civil life were banished. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. II. 95 A more numerous band..were easily admitted to share a superfluous waste of uncultivated land. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 313 How many square miles, which were formerly uncultivated or ill cultivated, have..been fenced and carefully tilled. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 340 The open country extends in a sea of green vegetation, which gives way..to uncultivated land.
fig.1693Ladies Petit. in Harl. Misc. (1809) IV. 329 Will you not provide that so many longing young ladies shall not lie unploughed, unharrowed, and uncultivated? 1738Wollaston Relig. Nat. (ed. 6) §3. 55, I believe many more [things] will in time be cleard, which..are yet in their dark and uncultivated estate. 1828B. White in Liddon Life Pusey (1893) I. 166 The growth of some weeds which were breaking out in the long uncultivated ground of my mind.
b. Of plants: Not produced or improved by cultivation; growing without tillage or care.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 601 Trees of Nature, and each common Bush, Uncultivated thrive. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. i. v, The roots and uncultivated fruits of the earth. 1871Garrod Met. Med. (ed. 3) 286 The uncultivated plant is stated to be preferable to the cultivated.
3. Not attended to or practised; not properly trained or developed.
1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 110 A First essay upon so difficult and uncultivated a Subject as I have ventur'd to treat of. 1712Steele Spect. No. 334 ⁋3 The Art [of dancing]..lies altogether uncultivated. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 50 Swift indeed has left no weapon of sarcasm untried, no branch of satyr uncultivated. 1796F. Burney Camilla IV. 93 The superior force of goodness, even where most simple and uncultivated. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iv. §11 He became..a comic writer..in the same vein of uncultivated genius.
Hence unˈcultivatedness.
1764Harmer Observ. Pref., There is a sameness in human nature every where, under the like degree of uncultivatedness. |