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Definition of Agrestic

1. Adjective. Characteristic of the fields or country. "Rustic stone walls"

2. Adjective. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth. "The agrestic behavior of a country boy"

Definition of Agrestic

1. a. Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

Definition of Agrestic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; unpolished. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agrestic

1. rural [adj] - See also: rural

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrestic

agreer agreers agrees agrees to disagree agreest agreeth agrege agreges agrellite agrellites

agremens agrement agrements agress agrestal agrestic (current term) agrestical agrestick agretope agri-

agri-business agri-entertainment agri-food agri-foods agria agrias agribiotech agribiotechnology agribusiness agribusinesses

Literary usage of Agrestic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India: In a Series of Letters to by William Adam, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1840)
"Occupations and Treatment of agrestic Slaves—Domestic Slaves— in British India. SIR,—Having inquired into the probable number of slaves and the various ..."

2. Baṛaran angghierēn, hayerēn ew hayataṛ tʻurkʻerēn by M. G. Minasean (1908)
"if.-^, tr-rttr • Agreement, Urf-t^r- t- *.""-- ./л.д,,,/;„„ /.;/„ î,, .//„„/.„л,,, /,;/„ г , •t- rK"- f—IL' agrestic, ..."

3. The Christian Examiner (1841)
"The seventh is on the treatment of agrestic and domestic slaves. We shall crowd together some ... In the Tamil country the agrestic slaves are entitled to a ..."

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