English

Noun

symposiast ‎(plural symposiasts)

1. One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sydney Smith to this entry?)

2. A participant in a symposium.
   • 1997, Carl F. Cranor, “A Philosophy of Risk Assessment and the Law: A Case Study of the Role of Philosophy in Public Policy” in Philosophical Studies LXXXV, № 2/3, page 135:

     I can begin to speak to some of these issues and to the charge given the symposiasts by referencing some of my own work which for more than a decade addressed issues in or on the edge of one major public policy debate.

Derived terms

• symposiastic