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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Culture \Cul"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.] To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. --Usher.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), adjective
1. Under culture; cultivated. ''Cultured vales.'' --Shenstone.
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. --I. Taylor.
The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cultured
adjective: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: {civilized}, {civilised}, {cultivated}, {genteel}, {polite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "cultured": abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cultivated, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, distingue, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise
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