Dictionary entry

Culturist

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cul″tur‐ist, n. 1. A cultivator.

2. One who is an advocate of culture.

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