Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cultured"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
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) 1.7 (wn)
cultured
adj : 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}]
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