cultivation

cultivation
cultivation (n.) c.1700, of knowledge, etc., a figurative use, from Fr. cultivation (16c.), noun of action from cultiver, from L. cultivare "to till" (see CULTIVATE (Cf. cultivate)). Meaning "raising of a plant or crop" is from 1719; literal sense of "tilling of the land" is from 1725.

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