[-ING2.] That cultivates; engaged in tillage.
1806. Surr, Winter in Lond. (ed. 3), I. 108. The close-cropt grass, which every where showed the hand of cultivating care.
1884. Athenæum, 12 Jan., 48/2. The condition of the cultivating classes.
1891. E. B. Andrews, in Educat. Rev., I. 140. The instruction in ecclesiastical and doctrinal history given in most of the theological schools of this country is in no wise so broad or cultivating as the corresponding study beyond the ocean.
