▪ I. † ˈcultive, v. Obs.
Also 5 -yue, 6 -ife.
[a. F. cultiver (12–13th c. in Godef.), ad. late L. cultīvāre to cultivate. (In OF. the word had also a semi-popular form coutiver.)]
trans. = cultivate. Hence † ˈcultiving vbl. n., cultivation.
| 1483 Caxton Esope 145 The labourer..made alle his ground to be cultyued and ered. 1483 ― Cato E iij, The cultyuyng and eerynge of the erthe. 1546 St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 181 To cultife the land. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World i. 27 Whichsoever he tooke pleasure to plant and cultive. 1635 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Ban. Virgin 120 Cultiving the seeds of the other Arabian odours. |
▪ II. † ˈcultive, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. late L. cultīvus, f. cultus tilled: cf. OF. teres cultives arable lands (1270 in Godef.).]
Under tillage, cultivated.
| 1611 Munday Briefe Chron. 249 To work in those rough fields, as yet not cultive. |