dialoguistn.
/dʌɪˈaləɡɪst/, /ˈdʌɪəlɒɡɪst/, U.S. /daɪˈæləɡəst/, /ˈdaɪəˌlɔɡəst/, /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡəst/ = dialogist n. (in either sense).
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1679 R. Fleming One Necessary Thing to be Sought To Rdr. sig. *v It's by way of Dialogue, without mentioning of Dialoguists, as is usual under borrowed names, to avoid any unnecessar [sic.] multiplying of words, that might be occasioned this way.
1684 T. Forrester Rectius Instruendum 283 The Churches intrinsick power of Government, I leave to the Impartiall to judge. And consequently of the vanity of this new Dialoguist, His pleading upon this point.
1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd II. iv. 66 The Azolain Dialoguists.
1833 National Standard 18 May 315/1 One of the dialoguists asks the other, ‘Could you not give the information to the public without its being known where it came from?’
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 July 11/1 The whimsical dialoguist of the Happy Islands.
1907 Bystander 29 May 462/1 The drama demands the services not only of the craftsman, the plot-hatcher, the dialoguist, the gag-coiner, it demands, in supreme control, the services of the writer.
2001 G. L. Cronin Room of his Own ii. 21 Chick and Ravelstein are Platonic dialoguists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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