2. A system of religious belief and worship.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Capable of being tilled or cultivated.
Capable of being cultivated or tilled.
1. To till; to prepare for crops; to manure, plow, dress, sow and reap; to labor on manage and improve in husbandry; as, to cultivate land; to cultivate a farm.
2. To improve by labor or study; to advance the growth of; to refine and improve by correction of faults, and enlargement of powers or good qualities; as, to cultivate talents; to cultivate a taste for poetry.
3. To study; to labor to improve or advance; as, to cultivate philosophy; to cultivate the mind.
4. To cherish; to foster; to labor to promote and increase; as, to cultivate the love of excellence; to cultivate gracious affections.
5. To improve; to meliorate, or to labor to make better; to correct; to civilize; as, to cultivate the wild savage.
6. To raise or produce by tillage; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Tilled; improved in excellence or condition; corrected and enlarged; cherished; meliorated; civilized; produced by tillage.
of Cultivate
Tilling; preparing for crops; improving in worth or good qualities; meliorating; enlarging; correcting; fostering; civilizing; producing by tillage.
of Cultivate
1. The art or practice of tilling and preparing for crops; husbandry; the management of land. Land is often made better by cultivation Ten acres under good cultivation will produce more than twenty when badly tilled.
2. Study, care and practice directed to improvement, correction, enlargement or increase; the application of the means of improvement; as, men may grow wiser by the cultivation of talents; they may grow better by the cultivation of the mind, of virtue, and of piety.
3. The producing by tillage; as the cultivation of corn or grass.
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
1. One who tills, or prepares land for crops; one who manages a farm, or carries on the operations of husbandry in general; a farmer; a husbandman; an agriculturist.
2. One who studies or labors to improve, to promote and advance in good qualities, or in growth.
1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.
Sharp-edged and pointed; formed like a knife; as, the beak of a bird is convex and cultrated
Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.
Of or pertaining to culture.
1. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; cultivation; the application of labor or other means of improvement.
2. We ought to blame the culture not the soil.
3. The application of labor or other means to improve good qualities in, or growth; as the culture of the mind; the culture of virtue.
4. The application of labor or other means in producing; as the culture of corn, or grass.
5. Any labor or means employed for improvement, correction or growth.
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
3. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
1. Under culture; cultivated.
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
Worship Roget’s Thesaurus §990
N. worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation, kneeling, genuflection, prostration, prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing, petition, collect, litany, lord's prayer, paternoster, beadroll, latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils, revival, cult, anxious meeting, camp meeting, ebenezer, virginal, thanksgiving, giving thanks, returning thanks, grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna, hallelujah, allelujah, te deum, non nobis domine, nunc dimittis, paean, benschen, ave maria, o salutaris, sanctus, the annunciation, tersanctus, trisagion, psalm, psalmody, hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet, antiphon, antiphony, oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation, burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering, offertory, discipline, self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial, fasting, divine service, office, duty, exercises, morning prayer, mass, matins, evensong, vespers, undernsong, tierce, holyday, worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant
V. worship, lift up the heart, aspire, revere, adore, do service, pay homage, humble oneself, kneel, bow the knee, bend the knee, fall down, fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself, bow down and worship, pray, invoke, supplicate, put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions, beseech, say one's prayers, tell one's beads, return thanks, give thanks, say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify, magnify, sing praises, give benediction, lead the choir, intone, deacon, deacon off propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself, vow, offer vows, give alms, work out one's salvation, go to church, attend service, attend mass, communicate
Phr. "making their lives a prayer", ora et labora, "prayers ardent open heaven"
Int. hallelujah, allelujah, hosanna, glory be to god, o lord, pray god that, god grant, god bless, god save, god forbid, sursum corda
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
1 KJV and 12 BSB verses contain “Cult”
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
The workers of the city who cultivate it will come from all the tribes of Israel.
O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?