Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cultivate anew.

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  • verb To cultivate again; to make productive once again

Etymologies

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re- +‎ cultivate

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Examples

  • The solution to the ills of Western Christendom is, in my analysis, to recultivate in the minds of the faithful a sense of the sacred and a notion of the existence of objective truth, both of which were largely lost already 150 years ago.

    Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion 2009

  • One of the habits I must recultivate is that of noting the found poetry every day on the A&E Biography sign.

    Goth girl shunn 2000

  • One of the habits I must recultivate is that of noting the found poetry every day on the A&E Biography sign.

    Goth girl shunn 2000

  • He had not exactly resolved to come that day to some decisive proof as to the widow's intention, but he had meant, if possible, to recultivate his friendship with Eleanor, and in his present frame of mind any such recultivation must have ended in a declaration of love.

    Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848

  • I am trying to recultivate the overwhelming enthusiasm I have had for truly, truly bad ideas.

    NYT > Home Page By SAM ANDERSON 2011

  • With the grant of this liberty, they began to recultivate their

    Bucaniers of America: 1684

  • While there is a plan to recultivate the wasteland, it is unclear what exactly the project will entail.

    The Moscow Times By Maria Antonova <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> 2010

  • While there is a plan to recultivate the wasteland, it is unclear what exactly the project will entail.

    The Moscow Times By Maria Antonova 2010

  • I want to recultivate old friendships and have company over for games and dinners and movies.

    Ask MetaFilter The Winsome Parker Lewis 2009

  • More importantly, in the long-term we need to recultivate local food markets, from fruit-and-vegetable stalls on up to local butchers, as well as the growing of family kitchen gardens.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sasha Abramsky 2009

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