[OF. compotateur (15th c. in Godef.), ad. late L. compōtātōr-em, agent-n. f. compōtāt-.] A fellow-drinker.
1731. Pope, Lett. to Knight, 23 Aug. Half our companions and compotators of syllabub.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 31. The … flowing hilarity of our fellow compotators.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, II. vii. 115. Ben Jonson’s compotators at the Mermaid.
