"symposiast" meaning in English

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          "text": "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."
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        "One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking."
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          "text": "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."
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        "A participant in a symposium."
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