Culturist

Culturist
Culturist Cul"tur*ist, n. 1. A cultivator. [1913 Webster]

2. One who is an advocate of culture. [1913 Webster]

The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not?) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. --J. C. Shairp [1913 Webster] ||


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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