convivialist

English

Etymology

convivial +‎ -ist

Noun

convivialist (plural convivialists)

1. A person of convivial habits.
2. (archaic) A person who drinks alcohol.

   Herman Melville (1857) chapter 2, in The Confidence-Man, page 10: “…there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure;…teetotalers and convivialists…”