ppl. a. [f. prec.]
1. Of land: Subjected to cultivation; tilled. Of plants: Produced or improved by cultivation.
1797. Bewick, Brit. Birds (1847), I. 94. It … is frequently seen in cultivated grounds.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 193. Flowering shrubs, and all manner of cultivated beauty.
Mod. The plant was described from a cultivated specimen.
2. fig. Of persons, their minds, faculties, etc.: Improved by education or training; refined, cultured.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., 81. In the latter and less cultivated ages.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 189. He seldom fails to display, and even to abuse, the advantages of a cultivated understanding, a copious fancy, an easy, and sometimes forcible, expression.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, II. xxi. The most cultivated men in the most cultivated of Italian cities.
1883. G. Lloyd, Ebb & Flow, I. 24. His cultivated tastes.
