ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Of soil or plants: Not cultivated or subjected to cultivation.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 299. By reason of so many marisshes,… it is yet rude vncultured, and lyttle knowen.
1607. J. Carpenter, Plaine Mans Plough, 197. Brambles and tares, such as naturally spring of evill and uncultured fields.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 85. Some obscure valley that lies … utterly uncultured.
1762–9. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 247. A sanguine train, With midnight ravage, scour the uncultured plain.
1804. Charlotte Smith, Conversations, etc., I. 150. Blushing, the uncultured Rose Hangs high her beauteous blossoms there.
1872. Stopford Brooke, in L. P. Jacks, Life & Lett. (1917), I. xiii. 267. The uncultured breast of Blackford and the Pentlands.
2. fig. Not developed or improved by education; not characterized by culture; unrefined.
1777. [T. Swift], Gamblers, I. 55.
| At school half brute, the self-same passions roll, | |
| And stamp for life his low, uncultur’d soul. |
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, II. 369. Those who unite native hardness with uncultured minds and manners.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, ii. (1904), 67. The man [Mahomet] was an uncultured semi-barbarous Son of Nature.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 277. He was a rough soldier, uncultured as Marius and hardly less cruel.
