ppl. a. [f. CULTURE v. and sb. + -ED.] Cultivated.
1. lit. of soil or plants. (Chiefly poetic.)
1743–6. Shenstone, Elegies, xxv. Our cultur’d vales.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 665. The cultured fields and the stately mansions of the Seine.
1861. Mrs. Norton, Lady La G. (1862), 102. Cultured shrubs and flowers together blent.
2. fig. Improved by education and training; characterized by intellectual culture; refined.
[1764. Goldsm., Trav., 236. The gentler morals, such as play Thro’ life’s more cultur’d walks.]
1777. [T. Swift], Gamblers, 5. Young Pollio’s cultur’d muse.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. i. 7. A cultured man of science.
1865. Whittier, Snow-Bound, 521. Rebuking with her cultured phrase Our homeliness of words and ways.
