incult

From Latin incultus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkʌlt/

incult (comparative more incult, superlative most incult)

1. (obsolete) Uncultivated, wild.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

     Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.

2. (now rare) Rough, unrefined.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , New York, 2001, p.86:

     where good government is, […] there all things thrive and prosper […] : where it is otherwise, all things are ugly to behold, incult, barbarous, uncivil, a paradise is turned to a wilderness.