Cul"ture, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb.
n. Culturing.] To cultivate; to
educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured.
Usher.
Cul"tured (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated.
"Cultured vales." Shenstone.
2. Characterized by mental and moral
training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among
cultured people, is less often met with than other mental
endowments.
I. Taylor.
The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Whittier.
Cul"ture*less, a. Having no
culture.
Cul"tur*ist, n. 1.
A cultivator.
2. One who is an advocate of
culture.
The culturists, by which term I mean not
those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&?;)
but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea
for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the
whole man.
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