[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. One professionally engaged in the culture of plants, fish, or other natural products.
1816. Aberdeen Jrnl., 24 April, 4/5. (heading), Information to Potatoe Curlturists.
1828. (title) Culturist.
1846. Cox, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. II. 494. It is well known to every practical culturist that the growth of plants is more rapid when in a vertical than when in a horizontal position.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 97. The naturalist and fish culturist.
2. An advocate or devotee of culture.
1870. J. C. Shairp, Culture & Relig. (1878), 21. The Culturists, again—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 one panacea for all the ills of humanity.
1889. C. D. Warner, in Harper’s Mag., May, 936/1. Adventists, socialists, spiritualists, culturists.
