Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who devotes himself to the improvement of the breed or stock in animals; hence, one who desires to secure the improvement, physical and mental, of the human race.
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He considered that it is the business of the stirpiculturist to keep in view both quantity and quality of stocks, and he held that, without diminishing quantity, it was possible to raise the quality by exercising a very stringent discrimination in selecting males.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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