Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Culturist \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