[f. AGRICULTURE + -IST.] (At first) A student of the science of agriculture, (but soon extended to) A professed cultivator of the land, a farmer (for which AGRICULTURALIST is also used).
1760. J. Scott, Eclogue, ii. (Chalmers, 1810), XVII. 469. Rural Business; or, the Agriculturists.
1795. J. Billingsley, Agric. Surv. Somerset (1798), 275. That enlightened agriculturist Jethro Tull.
1814. Sir H. Davy, Agric. Chem., 4. Both to the theoretical agriculturist, and the practical farmer.
1849. Cobden, Sp., 2. We have been accused of having subjected the agriculturists of this country to a competition with foreigners.
1861. Times, 1 June. Re Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Company.
