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incult, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈkʌlt|
Also 7 inculte.
[ad. L. incultus, f. in- (in-3) + cultus, pa. pple. of colĕre to cultivate. Cf. F. inculte (15–16th c.).]
1. Uncultivated, untilled, in a state of natural wildness.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 326 Germany then, saith Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent Cities. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 884 Her forests huge, Incult, robust, and tall. 1864Sala Diary in Amer. (1865) I. xii. 340 There were no trees, hedgerows, gardens visible. All was incult and horrid—without form and void.
2. Unpolished, untrimmed, inartistic, rude.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke Transl. to Rdr. 1, I hope, and trust the most curteous Reader will accept..this my most inculte and vntilled labour. 1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 114 Eyther incult and horrid stones or unshapen and rude matter. 1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. ii. Pref. (1682) 9 The reading of so incult and unpolite a Rhapsodie. a1851M. Wollstonecraft (Webster), His style is diffuse and incult. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. iii. (1890) 60 The miscellaneous..writers, who, incult and formless as their work was, at least maintained the literary tradition.
3. Of persons, their manners, etc.: Wanting in culture or refinement; inelegant, rough, coarse.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. To Rdr. 56 Let them be rude, stupid, ignorant, incult. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 8 In the more incult and fierce behaviour of our English and Saxon Ancestors. 1862Symonds in Life (1895) I. 208 She saw his coarseness at once. He is incult, but clever. 1891C. Wordsworth Ann. Early Life ii. 145 His [Neander's] appearance was very incult. |