conversationist

plural conversationists

1. Someone skilled in the art of conversation.

   Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.

   1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

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   BROWN, SAMUEL, M.D., chemist, born in Haddington, grandson of John Brown of Haddington, whose life was devoted, with the zeal of a mediaeval alchemist, to a reconstruction of the science of atomics, which he did not live to see realised: a man of genius, a brilliant conversationist and an associate of the most intellectual men of his time, among the number De Quincey, Carlyle, and Emerson; wrote "Lay Sermons on the Theory of Christianity," "Lectures on the Atomic Theory," and two volumes of "Essays, Scientific and Literary" (1817-1856).

   1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

   [A] He was expert at fence, had some skill in drawing, and was a ready and eloquent conversationist and declaimer.

   1850, Various, International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,