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symposiac, n. and a.|sɪmˈpəʊzɪæk|
Also 6 -ake, 7 -ach, -acke, -aque, 7–8 -ack.
[ad. late L. symposiacus adj. (Gellius), in neut. pl. symposiaca also as n. applied to certain writings of Plutarch (see A. 2 below), or Gr. συµποσιακός adj., f. συµπόσιον symposium: see -ac.]
A. n.
†1. = symposiast 1. Obs. rare—1.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxv. (1887) 129 Dipnosophistes, symposiakes, antiquaries.
2. A symposiac meeting or conversation, or an account of one; a symposium. Now rare or Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 641 (heading) The Symposiaqves or Table-questions. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iv. 81 Plutarch speakes positively in his Symposiacks, that amber attracteth all bodies. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year, Summer xiv. 179 That which was fine in discourse at a Symposiack, or an Academical dinner. 1683Dryden Life Plutarch in P.'s Lives (1758) p. xvi, A man..of whom Plutarch has made frequent mention in his Symposiaques or Table Conversations. 1748J. Geddes Comp. Antients 110 In the Symposiac, or banquet [of Plato], where a variety of characters are brought in. 1792W. Roberts Looker-on No. 30 (1794) I. 432 Taciturnity was..the best recommendation to the symposiacs of sages, and the lectures of philosophers. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 252 At a Symposiac, near London. 1842Tait's Mag. IX. 683 Politics and symposiacs go ill together.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for a symposium; of the nature of a symposium; convivial.
1642Cudworth Union Christ & Ch. 21 He [sc. Plato] therefore in that excellent Symposiack dialogue concerning the nature of Love, brings in Aristophanes discoursing in this manner. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 266 The ancient custome in Symposiacke meetings, to weare chapletts of Roses about their heads. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments Pref. (1735) A ij, In some of those symposiac Disputations amongst my Acquaintance. 1840G. C. Lewis tr. C. O. Müller's Hist. Lit. Greece x. §16. 124 These elegies, like those of Archilochus, Solon, Theognis, &c. were symposiac. 1850Mure Lit. Greece III. 100 The next..order of symposiac performance..resembles our..custom of laying each guest under an obligation to sing his song. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Symposiac, a term applied to cheerful and convivial compositions for voices, as glees, catches, rounds, &c.
So symposiacal |sɪmpəʊˈzaɪəkəl| a. rare—1.
1826New Monthly Mag. Jan. 17 Symposiacal forth⁓pourings of gratitude. |