a. [ad. med.Gr. συμποσιαστικός, f. *συμποσιαστής: see prec. and -IC.] = SYMPOSIAC a.

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1669.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. III. iv. 54. Plato, in his Symposiastic Dialogue … mentions [etc.].

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1831.  Standard, 26 May, 2/4. ‘Chosen by all kinds of different and conflicting! mobs.’ Another symposiastic trope, we suppose—but a hard nut for a metaphysician to crack.

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1866.  Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xl. He thought about Socrates, and his symposiastic drolleries.

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1896.  L. A. Times, 22 March, 22/4. ’Tis a happy thought of Mr. [John] Davidson’s, the symposiastic method of writing poetry.

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