cultivage

From French cultivage.^[1]

cultivage (uncountable)

1. (rare) The art or act of cultivating; cultivation.
   • 1632, 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, published 1640, pages 165 and 372:

     And on the other part, the Greeks are as unwilling to be induſtrious in Arts, Trafficke or Cultivage; ſeeing what they poſſeſſe is not their owne, but is taken from them at all occaſions, with tyranny & oppreſſion. […] 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 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.

   • , Some Observation’s on Our Trade, and on the Use of a Standard, , →OCLC, page 2:

     This as it refers immediately to Land, lays an obligation upon the Nobility and Landed Men to apply their Induſtry and Labour, to its Cultivage and Improvement; […]

   • 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.