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Definition of Incult
1. a. Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized.
Definition of Incult
1. Adjective. (rare) Uncultivated, wild. ¹
2. Adjective. (rare) Rough, unrefined. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incult
1. uncultivated [adj] - See also: uncultivated
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incult
Literary usage of Incult
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"incult, adj. ... Her forest» huge, incult, robust and tall, by Nature's hand
Planted of old. ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"Germany then, saith Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent
cities; Athens, Corinth, Carthage, how flourishing cities, now buried in their ..."
3. The seasons by James Thomson (1825)
"... in romantic view: Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a
keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge, incult, ..."