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cultiver2 (1113-19)
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cultiver2 (1113-19)

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coltiver,  cortiver,  cotefier,  cotiver,  cotivier;  courtiver,  coutefier,  coutiver;  cultifier,  cultivier,  cutefier,  cutiver  (custifier (l. cultifier))  
  FEW:  colere 2/ii,887a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  coutiver 9,234b / cultiver 9,265c TL: coutiver 2,973 DEAF:  coutiver  DMF:  cultiver  TLF:  cultiver  OED:  cultive v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  cultificare 530a

v.trans.

1agriculturalto cultivate, grow crops on (the land): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Bone est la terre a cultiver  Brut WACE 685
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  cum terre bien cutivee  S Rich ANTS 221
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) [L]a fu Adam fait, nostre premer pere, e la terre cutiva e labora  Iter paris 139
( c.1300-01 )  les terres […] fera le dit roi […] bailler a gaagner et a coutiver  Scot Docs 244
( s.xiv; MS: s.xvi )  Cil qui cultivent la terre  Leis Will (I) 29
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Ceste gent dont jeo vous parle ils ne courtivent ne labourent point la terre qar ils ne mangent point de pain  Mandeville 174
( MS: s.xiii2 )  colo, -is: (D) cotefier  TLL ii 19
♦agriculturalto grow: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Cest arbre cultivum! Bon i est a abiter  Best ants 2534
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  les Sarazins ne cortivent nulles vignes ne boivent point de vin  Mandeville 180
2to pursue, follow up: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  ly Sarazin suduiant, Lur fole siute cultivant, Envie ourent de nostre ley  S Edm Life ANTS 2678
♦fig.to develop, foster: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  As maiurs cumandat La citet a garder E ben a cultiver  Comput ANTS 760
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Les prestres […] fruit de bones ovres funt Que li clerc deivent cultiver  Mirur2 387
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Car silence contive (l. coutive, cotive?) dreiturelté  Ancren2 187.2
3theol.paganto worship, venerate as a deity: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Estre cest deu (=Wodan) que dit vus ai Cultivum nus deuuesse Free, Ki par tut est mult enuree  Brut WACE 6787
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  ces ki soleient Baal cultiver  Liv Reis1 195
( MS: s.xiiim )  les idles e les mahums soleit cultiver  Vitas 1313
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 )  Quant fu mortz, li fi[z]v en sun honur firent un ymage [...]. Dunt plusurs le cutiverent pur deu  Iter paris 132
( c.1350; MS: c.1350 )  Cot[iv]és et ametz Dieu plus que vous mesmes  A-N Rules 95

p.p. as a.

cultivated: 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  squalidi: (O) ben cutifiez (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) cotefeys, freges; (L: s.xiiiex) cotyfyez)  TLL ii 38
nient cultivé
nientcultivé
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