naturistn.adj.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 573/1 Naturist, a physician who scrupulously investigates, interprets, and follows the indications presented by nature in the treatment of disease.

1892 Harper's Mag. Apr. 803/1 Words that must have gone hard sometimes with the ‘naturist’ he happened to be praising.

1900 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 52/3 Hence, realists, naturalists, and ‘naturists’, and decadents,..and a host of other ephemeridae.

1991 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 78 720/2 Mary Austin..an American poet, folklorist, and naturist who was well known in the early twentieth century.

1926 Q. Rev. Biol. 1 605/2 A ‘naturist’ is one who is against good food, good drink, good tobacco, and most of the other achievements of pleasant living.

1929 M. Parmelee Nudity in Mod. Life i. 15 We have all heard of so-called ‘naturists’, who insist that man..should discard everything artificial such as..clothing, books, cooked food, etc.

1953 Amer. Lit. 25 120 The bizarre George Wharton James, Browning enthusiast, philosopher of sex, naturist, archeologist, experimenter in the culture of dates and spineless cactus, [etc.]

1992 B. Elton Stark 144 Moorcock was undressing like a born again naturist.

1978 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 16 1447/2 It was ‘nurture versus nature’... The ‘naturists’ believed that certain kinds of human beings were essentially inferior and that the only way that society could be improved would be through eugenic selection.

1994 C. Paglia Vamps & Tramps 38 The naturists among them are ultimately twin to the nurturists, or social constructionists.

1894 Harper's Mag. Dec. 155/1 He could have run round the whole circle, been romantic, classic, realist, naturist, and romantic again.

1977 19th-cent. Fiction 32 352 Alcorn..traces the development of..the naturist writers..[who] share an idea of a world where ‘biology replaces theology as the source both of psychic health and of moral authority’.

1990 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 77 1063/2 Even Austin's naturist works subvert male-defined values and power relationships.

1922 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 538 The four people studied..formed a religious group called ‘ethical’ as opposed to the naturist tendency of other Indo-Europeans.

1972 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 77 805 The comparative study of Indo-European mythology fell into in the early years of this century with the passing of the naturist schools of Max Müller and Adelbert Kuhn.

1992 Photography 45 The Gaunches' religion was purely naturist; they adored the sun, stars and the elements in general.

1930 Observer 27 Apr. 12/5 Advocates of the health cure of complete nudity..spent a holiday in a naturist colony on an island in the Seine.

1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain v. 113 He is a vegetarian and a firm adherent of the Naturist clinic in Malaga, with its theories of opposites and harmonies in foods.

1963 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 22/5 The description ‘a nudist camp’, according to the naturist terminology, is defunct... Instead club members are asked to use the expression ‘sun club’ or ‘naturist club’.

1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 184 A naturist diet of fruit and raw vegetables.

1989 Holiday Which? Mar. 89/3 You can walk or sail to a local naturist beach from many resorts.

1988 Science 19 Feb. 923/3 The new Soviet naturist views (for example, genetic determination) tend to undermine the official Marxist views of the overriding importance of society in the social, psychological and moral formation of human beings.

1998 Current Anthropol. 39 126/2 One [genre] is narratives which tend to be naturist, foreground genetic, physiological, and biodemographic variables... The other is narratives which tend to be nurturist.