[ad. Gr. αἰσθητής one who perceives; cf. athlete.] One who professes a special appreciation of what is beautiful, and endeavors to carry his ideas of beauty into practical manifestation.
1881. Burnand, in Daily News, 31 Jan., 2/3. The matter-of-fact, slily-humorous, but quiet American colonel, who descends like a bomb-shell in the midst of the æsthetes.
1881. Spectator, 2 July, 859. The sham æsthete never chooses pretty colours.
