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cultured, ppl. a.|ˈkʌltjʊəd|
[f. culture v. and n. + -ed.]
Cultivated.
1. lit.
a. of soil or plants. (Chiefly poetic.)
1743–6Shenstone Elegies xxv, Our cultur'd vales. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 655 The cultured fields and the stately mansions of the Seine. 1861Mrs. Norton Lady La G. (1862) 102 Cultured shrubs and flowers together blent.
b. Developed under controlled natural conditions, esp. cultured pearl. Cf. culture n. 3 b.
1921Current Hist. July 623/2 It is quite impossible to tell the natural pearl from the cultured pearl. 1930Pop. Sci. Dec. 45/3 Like ‘natural’ pearls, the cultured product can be dissolved in acids. 1940Chem. Abstr. XXXIV. 4700 An x-ray study of aragonite in natural and cultured pearls.
2. fig. Improved by education and training; characterized by intellectual culture; refined.
[1764Goldsm. Trav. 236 The gentler morals, such as play Thro' life's more cultur'd walks.] 1777Gamblers 5 Young Pollio's cultur'd muse. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 7 A cultured man of science. 1865Whittier Snow-bound 521 Rebuking with her cultured phrase Our homeliness of words and ways.
¶ With distortion of spelling to indicate affected or vulgar pronunciation.
1929Galsworthy Exiled 1, Quate! 'Ow culchad! Hairs and grices! 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. i. 324 He likes treading out music with a pianola, for example, to the great disdain of the culchad Trotsky. |