Cultural history of meaning

Something, in short, that now we call Culture, which the Oxford English Dictionary, a century or two later, would define as ‘The training, development, and refinement of mind, tastes, and manners; the condition of being thus trained and refined; the intellectual side of civilization’ (OED s

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the history of a culture or culture area; specifically : a history treating one or a number of historic world cultures as an integrated unit for purposes of cross comparison with others and for analysis of the forces presumed to be in operation as regards cultural growth,… See the full definition