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culturist|ˈkʌltjʊərɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One professionally engaged in the culture of plants, fish, or other natural products.
1828(title) Culturist. 1846Cox in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. ii. 494 Well known to every practical culturist. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 97 The naturalist and fish culturist.
2. An advocate or devotee of culture.
1870J. C. Shairp Culture & Relig. (1878) 7 The Culturists..by which term I mean not those who esteem culture..but those..who recommend it as the one panacea for all the ills of humanity. 1889Harper's Mag. May 936/1 Adventists, socialists, spiritualists, culturists. |