symposiac
English
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[edit]symposiac (comparative more symposiac, superlative most symposiac)
- Of or pertaining to a symposium
- 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 110:
- The ancient custome in Symposiack meetings was to weave chaplets of roses about their heads.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
- symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance
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Noun
[edit]symposiac (plural symposiacs)
- A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet.
- (by extension) Any similar gathering.