An archaic or obsolete term meaning to cultivate land or engage in agriculture.
From Latin agricere, combining agr- (field) with cerere, related to growing or cultivating. This word is rarely used in modern English and represents an older stage of agricultural vocabulary.
This word is almost completely dead in modern English, preserved mainly in historical texts and dictionaries—it's like a fossil of the English language showing us how people talked about farming centuries ago before modern agricultural technology changed our vocabulary.
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