discourser

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He left on my mind the impression of his being the best discourser on imaginative topics, and the most dangerous person to be entrusted with practical ones, I had ever met with. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

He was indeed the principal interlocutor and discourser at the discussions, which were on all subjects, religions, literary, and philosophical.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.

DAW: There's Aristotle, a mere common-place fellow; Plato, a discourser; Thucydides and Livy, tedious and dry; Tacitus, an entire knot: sometimes worth the untying, very seldom.

From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben

He was a very pleasant discourser, in earnest and in jest, and, therefore, very grateful to all kind of company, where he was not the less esteemed for being very rich.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

And, perhaps, a long discourse is none the more acceptable when it is palpable to the hearers that the discourser has committed it to memory, and is bound to go on to the bitter end.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport