dissertator

plural dissertators

1. Someone who writes or performs a dissertation or speech.

   Our dissertator learnedly argues

   1698, Charles Boyle Orrery, Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the fables of Æsop, examin'd by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq

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   The dissertators usually begin with famous words, which symbolize the mainstream of viewpoints in their specific field. The words and sentences, as in these, could even be used to cover the whole of discourse in the field.

   2018, Kiyoung Kim, Piece to Text on the Monument and One