symposiast
Noun

symposiast (plural symposiasts)

  1. One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
    • 1842 September 11 Sydney Smith "Letter to Lady Day" ↗ in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, Volume 2 (1855; London: Longman, Brown, Green) p.469, No.478:
      Lady ――― is tolerably well, with two courses and a French cook. She has fitted up her lower rooms in a very pretty style, and there receives the shattered remains of the symposiasts of the house.
  2. A participant in a symposium.



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