unculted

English

Etymology

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Adjective

unculted (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In a wild, natural state.
   • 1828, Charles Willats Ellis, The clergyman's assistant, page 342:

     Provided nevertheless, where heretofore such a custom hath been in many parts of Wales, that of such chattel and other goods as hath been given with the marriage of any person, their tithes have been exacted and levied by the Parsons and Curates in those parts: which custom being dissonant from any part of this realm, as it seemed when the said country of Wales was through civil dissension unculted, for want of other sufficient profits that might otherwise grow to the Curates and Ministers there, to have been for that time tolerable;

   • 1871, Grove Berry, A Sequel to "Ritualism"., page 40:

     For yet [still] Christ, we actually being strengthless, yet, according to season [occasion = ' season-ably '], over unculted [rude, mere 'naturals' ] ones died away.

   • 1913, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, page 509:

     […] and since my property as it is called and distinguisht by an English scale, while but a wild and unculted one, and never to be otherwise but at my cost, which is 99 parts in 100, besides the fall 'twill give to our present settlements ( that rise fifty p. cent on my last arrivall there) and an abundance of seen and unforeseen prejudices […]