About The Word Rhetorician
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Rhetorician
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What's The Definition Of Rhetorician?
[n] a person who delivers a speech or oration
Synonyms | Synonyms for Rhetorician: orator | public speaker | speechifier | speechmaker Related Terms | Find terms related to Rhetorician: See Also | Burke | Cicero | demagog | demagogue | Demosthenes | Edmund Burke | elocutionist | eulogist | haranguer | Henry | Isocrates | Marcus Tullius Cicero | panegyrist | Patrick Henry | rabble-rouser | speaker | spellbinder | talker | tub-thumper | Tully | utterer | verbaliser | verbalizer Rhetorician In Webster's Dictionary \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.]
1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
The understanding is that by which a man becomes a
mere logician and a mere rhetorician. --F. W.
Robertson.
2. A teacher of rhetoric.
The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever
had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred
years old. --Bacon.
3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without
genuine eloquence; a declaimer. --Macaulay.
\Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. ``With rhetorician pride.'' --Blackmore. |
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