culturatus

English

Noun

culturatus

1. singular of culturati
   • 1968 September 15, Tom Wolfe, “McLuhan: through electric circuitry to God”, in Chicago Tribune, 122d year, number 259, section 9 (Book World, volume II, number 37), page 4:

     Marshall McLuhan started out like most of the celebrated academic oracles of the past 100 years or so, namely, writing things that were incomprehensible to l’homme moyen intellectuel, which is French for what I call your average culturatus. Your average culturatus has a B.A. from Rutgers, a thin wife, a Volkswagen, a subscription to Architectural Forum, white Saarinen pedestal chairs in the dining alcove, a Fisher hi-fi, all the Beatles albums from Revolver on, brown bread in the bread box, a McCarthy button, a lapsed pledge card from core, and an idea for a science-fiction novel about a planet inhabited by holy primitives.

   • 1992 August 19, Gilbert Adair, “Culture rapping”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 32:

     In short, every culturally literate person, every culturatus, must know who Oblomov is, if he or she intends to participate in the cultural discourse, but no one will ever be blackballed from that discourse for not recognising the name “Goncharov” or not having read his novel from cover to cover.

   • 1996 November 16, “Sophisticated Australians? It’s just an old wise tale.”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 49,675, page 4s:

     Still, one has only to meet Professor Malcolm Coppleson, Macquarie Street gynaecologist and culturatus, a regular on the world medical-lecture circuit, to recognise a man of wit.

   • 1998, Mark N. Grant, Eric Friedheim, Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America, Northeastern University Press, →ISBN, page 219:

     Of all the careers embodying the Gilded Age’s beau ideal of the musical gentleman culturatus, the most spectacular was that of Rupert Hughes (1872–1956), the only classical music critic to become a millionaire and Hollywood celebrity.

   • 2017, Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly, editors, Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

     His [Bernard Herrmann’s] Russian-immigrant father was a culturatus, and exposed him from his youngest days to high art.