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To bring as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

To educate in a wrong manner.

Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot. Halliwell. Bred to arms, educated to the profession of a soldier. -- In arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility. -- Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc. -- A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayo…

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

rain; to reduce to obedience. -- To bring up. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.

To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

The literati, or well educated class.

colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

ly life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher.

Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.

fortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay.

Capability of being educated.

Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.