culture noun
Category: social processes.
1604, Cawdrey:
husbandry, tilling.
1626, Cockeram:
tillage, dressing of land.
1658, Phillips:
Not listed.
1676, Coles:
Not listed.
Example: Note the relation to cultivation which Coles (1676) sees as a synonym of culture (as a verb), defining both as: manuring.