What is "cultured"

Usage examples of "cultured".

Aldus himself was the first president of the organization, and the members included readers and correctors of the Aldine Press, priests and doctors, the cultured nobility of Venice, Padua, Rome, Bologna, and Lucca, Greek scholars from Candia, and even the great Erasmus from Rotterdam.

I felt a sense of vertigo as I tried to fix the lists of Bengali syllables I was hearing with the brown and cultured faces.

Maddie and Beau exchanged amused glances as they watched the cultured Bostonian matron attending her task with grim determination.

Although why an assassin should want to kill the ruler of the richest, most cultured empire history had ever known was a mystery that Chuang Tzu hoped soon to have unravelled, once the two of them met.

Lady Daws stated, her voice low and ever cultured, but carrying with it such malice that Kat was chilled.

Caught in this crush of bodies were servants carrying platters of food: cultured meats and cakes and fairy food, chillies and cheeses and cold vegetable compotes and the hundreds of exotic fruits for which Farfara is justly famous.

In fact, human society in pretechnological times was much more like that of the compassionate, communal and cultured Bushman hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert than the Fuegians Darwin, with some justification, derided.

Undoubtedly this planet had had a geological history similar to that of Earth, and the highly cultured beings who had built this vanished city had made full use of their magmatic heritage in laying these cavernous foundations.

I am well aware that the Massagetae are not only the oldest and most pious, most cultured, and at the same time the bravest people on earth, that their invincible armies are the largest, their fleet the greatest, their character at once the most inflexible and the most amiable, their women the most beautiful, their schools and public buildings the most exemplary in the world, but also that in all the world they possess in the highest degree that virtue which is so highly esteemed and so sorely lacking in many other great peoples: namely, although conscious of their own superiority, they are charitable toward and considerate of foreigners, not expecting each and every poor stranger -- coming from an inferior country -- to have himself attained the heights of Massagetic perfection.

As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum, the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair.

Craig Parshall was less impressive in appearance than his cultured voice suggested.

His apartment was a model abode of contour furniture and supergraphics, an apparent challenge to the cultured indolence of Riverside Drive.

East Tennesseans look like models of elegant and cultured gentlemen in contrast.

To pass the time, Bill and Alex repaired Backpack 6, while Julie experimented with the Crock-Pot and bread machine and Peter cultured wastewater samples downstairs in the lab.

No cultured relative was present to teach the notes of its kind, so that in default it learned the complete vocabulary of the domestic poultry, besides the more familiar calls and exclamations of its mistress, the varied barks of two dogs, the shrieks of many cockatoos, the gabble of scrub fowls.