Definitions

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  • noun A person of convivial habits.

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  • noun A person of convivial habits.

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  • noun A person of convivial habits.

Etymologies

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convivial +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • To-day the prodigal once more returns to the paternal roof; the spendthrift forsakes his boon companions; the convivialist deserts the wine-cup.

    Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

  • Nor was it any gay convivialist of happier days whose face now greeted him: it was the old money-lender, who in a voice husky with loss of breath, or possibly emotion, said, thrusting couple of twenty-pound bank-notes into West 'hand --

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • Up to the time of Ibn Khallikan, in the thirteenth century, its best player was one As-Suli, famous as an author and a convivialist, who died one hundred and twenty years before the Norman

    A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

  • I laughed out clear and loud, stepped up to the convivialist, took him by the shoulders and faced him about.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • We can only add, with regard to Fighting Attie, "Good luck be with him wherever he goes!" and for mine host of the Jolly Angler, that, though we have not the physical constitution to quaff "a bumper of blue ruin," we shall be very happy, over any tolerable wine and in company with any agreeable convivialist, to bear our part in the polished chorus of --

    Paul Clifford — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • We can only add, with regard to Fighting Attie, "Good luck be with him wherever he goes!" and for mine host of the Jolly Angler, that, though we have not the physical constitution to quaff "a bumper of blue ruin," we shall be very happy, over any tolerable wine and in company with any agreeable convivialist, to bear our part in the polished chorus of --

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • a real Havana cigar (probably the first real one that he had ever been blessed with), he put a package of the same brand in his travelling-bag, bade his entertainer, -- who had solemnly engaged to remain in Boston for Mr. Helwyse's sole sake, -- bade his fellow-convivialist good by, and took the train to Newport, and from there the "Empire State" for New York.

    Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • If, after dinner, a worthy convivialist observed, "I see

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various

  • Paul, a lay-man like themselves, more or less married and convivialist, sent from Paris to preach a course of Jacobin morality. [

    The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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