All 4 Uses of
cultivate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Still to cultivate the acquaintance of someone of no uncommon calibre who could provide food for reflection would amply repay any small.†
Chpt 16cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.†
Chpt 17cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- The habit of independent purchase increasingly cultivated.†
Chpt 17 *cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- Arranged successively in ascending powers of hierarchical order, that of gardener, groundsman, cultivator, breeder, and at the zenith of his career, resident magistrate or justice of the peace with a family crest and coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper paratus), duly recorded in the court directory (Bloom, Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. (honoris causa), Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have left Kingstown for England).†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.