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dialogist|daɪˈælədʒɪst|
[ad. L. dialogista, ad. Gr. διαλογιστής, f. διάλογος; see dialogue and -ist: in F. dialogiste (17th c.). See also dialoguist.]
1. One who takes part in a dialogue; one of the personages in an imaginary dialogue.
a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 II. 114 The like doth Cicero [assert] ..in the person of his Dialogists. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxxvii, The dialogist affirmeth, That a long nose is not without its domestic conveniences also. 1847De Quincey Milton v. Southey Wks. XII. 176 The two dialogists are introduced walking out after breakfast.
2. A writer of dialogues.
a1660Hammond Wks. II. 232 (R.) If we will believe the dialogist's reasonings. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. v. ii. 292 The Characters, or Personages, employ'd by our new orthodox Dialogists. 1839Maginn in Fraser's Mag. XX. 271 The doctor had never read the Greek dialogist. |