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CULTURE, n. [L. See Cultivate.]

1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement.

We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

2. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.

3. The application of labor or other means in producing; as the culture of corn, or grass.

4. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.

CULTURE, v.t. To cultivate.




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CULTURE, n. [L. See Cultivate.]

1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement.

We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

2. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.

3. The application of labor or other means in producing; as the culture of corn, or grass.

4. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.

CULTURE, v.t. To cultivate.


CUL'TURE, n. [L. cultura, from colo. See Cultivate.]

  1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement. We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. – Pope.
  2. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as, the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.
  3. The application of labor or other means in producing; as, the culture of corn, or grass.
  4. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.

CU'L'TURE, v.t.

To cultivate. – Thomson.


Cul"ture
  1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
  2. To cultivate] to educate.

    They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.
    Usher.

  3. The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.

    (b)
  4. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

    If vain our toil
    We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
    Pepe.

  5. Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
  6. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

    What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
    J. C. Shairp.

    The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.
    Tylor.

    Culture fluid, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.

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Culture

CULTURE, noun [Latin See Cultivate.]

1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement.

We ought to blame the culture not the soil.

2. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.

3. The application of labor or other means in producing; as the culture of corn, or grass.

4. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.

CULTURE, verb transitive To cultivate.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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