cult.

Noun

culturist (plural culturists)

1. One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator.
   • Steve Dolan is an assistant manager and fish culturist at the Salmon River Hatchery in Altmar, outside Syracuse, where Lake Ontario’s king salmon are raised.2007 October 20, Matt Higgins, “A Bruising Fight in Rough Water”, in New York Times
2. An advocate of culture.
   • 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, — the Culturists are never done insisting that it is not for its utilitarian results...1871, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations, page 21
3. One who holds prejudices against a culture.

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