[see -IST.]
1. A member of a convention or assembly.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIV. 550. Such politicians as the Dublin Conventionists.
1866. Pall Mall G., No. 506. 916/1. The Philadelphia Convention … The Conventionists.
† 2. One who enters into a convention or contract.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1775), 17. The buyer cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he instantly … views his conventionist with the same sort of eye, as if he was going … to fight a duel.
