cultivage

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:[…]

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

[…]; 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.

1665, R[ichard] B[rathwait], The Captive-Captain: or, The Restrain’d Cavalier; […], London: […] J. Grismond, 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.

2015, Christian Bök, The Xenotext (Book 1), Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 34