cultivageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cultivage (uncountable)

1. (rare) The art or act of cultivating; cultivation.
   • 1640, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. […], London: […] I. Okes, page 372:

     Leaving Ahetzo behind us, and entring the Countrey of the Agaroes, wee found the beſt inhabitants halfe clad, the vulgars naked, the Countrey void of Villages, Rivers, or cultivage: […]

   • 1665, R[ichard] B[rathwait], The Captive-Captain: or, The Restrain’d Cavalier; […], London: […] J. Grismond, page 34:

     […]; ſo in your Cultivage, there be three Infectious Seeds, wherewith you are never to be acquainted, if ever you expect ſucceſs, or a fair account from your harveſt.

   • 2015, Christian Bök, The Xenotext (Book 1), Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 34:

     Let no hand but his undertake this work of tilling the slopes or wetting the sprigs – and if not for the furling of my sails, turning the prow of my ship to the shore, I might have sung odes to such cultivage, which rivals every rose bush in Pæstum: how endive soaks itself in furtive brooks, how fennel sways itself in verdant fields, how vines and ivies entangle the gourds.