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Definition of Overcultivate

1. Verb. To exhaust by excessive cultivation. "The farmers overcropped the land"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcultivate

Literary usage of Overcultivate

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

1. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"Frequently he makes of himself a very artificial creature as judged against the background of his biological inheritance. He tends often to overcultivate ..."

2. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1904)
"... often exaggerated, as well as the evils of an attempt to overcultivate this part of the students' life are minimized and disregarded. ..."

3. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"He tends often to overcultivate Himself, to overburden mind and body, and so complexly to organize his life that, like the mastodon, and the great horned ..."

4. Discourses and Addresses at the Ordination of the Rev. Theodore Dwight by Yale University, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, Leonard Bacon, Jeremiah Day (1846)
"But we are not aiming to give a decidedly scientific tendency to the mind, nor to overcultivate the ..."

5. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting Held at by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1904)
"... often exaggerated, as well as the evils of an attempt to overcultivate this part of the students' life are minimized and disregarded. ..."

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