culture, L.
cultura, fr.
colere to till,
cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of
preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as,
the culture of the soil.2. The act of, or any labor or means
employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and
intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the
mind.
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Pepe.
3. The state of being cultivated; result
of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and
discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization;
refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their
paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we
less happily try to express by the more artificial word
culture.
J. C. Shairp.
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture.
Tylor.
Culture fluid,
a fluid in which the
germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for
purposes of study or as a means of modifying their
virulence.
Pages:
2604
2605
2606
2607
2608
2609
2610
2611
2612
2613
2614
2615
2616
2617
2618
2619
2620
2621
2622
2623
2624
2625
2626
2627
2628