Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CUL-TI-VA'TION
CUL-TI-VA'TION, n.
- 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.
- 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.
- The producing by tillage; as, the cultivation of corn or grass.
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