symposiast

Etymology
From the, from , whence.

Noun

 * 1) One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A  in a.
 * 2) * 1997, Carl F. Cranor, “A Philosophy of Risk Assessment and the Law: A Case Study of the Role of Philosophy in Public Policy” in  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.