Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"