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Webster 1913 Edition
Cultivation
Culˊti-va′tion
(k?lˊt?-v?′sh?n)
, Noun.
[Cf. F.
cultivation
.] 1.
The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
2.
Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
3.
The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to
cultivation
before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cultivation
CULTIVATION
,Noun.
1.
The art or practice of tilling and preparing for crops; husbandry; the management of land. Land is often made better by cultivation. Ten acres under good cultivation will produce more than twenty when badly tilled.2.
Study, care and practice directed to improvement, correction, enlargement or increase; the application of the means of improvement; as, men may grow wiser by the cultivation of talents; they may grow better by the cultivation of the mind, of virtue, and of piety.3.
The producing by tillage; as the cultivation of corn or grass.