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A person who delivers a speech or oration
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rhetorician
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Word definitions for rhetorician in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., Old French rethoricien , from rethorique (see rhetoric ). An Old English word for one was wordsawere "word-sower."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a result he was sent to Arles, where he came into contact with the rhetorician Julianus Pomerius.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator , speechmaker , public speaker , speechifier ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.] 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. A teacher of rhetoric. The ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 An expert or student of rhetoric. 2 An orator or eloquent public speaker. n. 1 An expert or student of rhetoric. 2 An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Usage examples of rhetorician.
A professed rhetorician could not have answered more elegantly or more flatteringly.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.
But he was marvelously shrewd, a guesser of genius, a powerful polemicist and rhetorician.
These were: the theologian Khalyava, the philosopher Khoma Brut, and the rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets.
A professed rhetorician could not have answered more elegantly or more flatteringly.
Not, therefore, excited by vanity, but sustained by self-respect, by an overpowering feeling that he owed it to himself and the opinions he held, to show to the world that they had not been lightly adopted and should not be lightly laid aside, Bentinck rose, long past the noon of night, at the end of this memorable debate, to undertake an office from which the most successful and most experienced rhetoricians of Parliament would have shrunk with intuitive discretion.
Thirdly, when the general idea of a hell has once obtained lodgment, it is rapidly nourished, developed, and ornamented, carried out into particulars by poets, rhetoricians, and popular teachers, whose fancies are stimulated and whose figurative views and pictures act and react both upon the sources and the products of faith.
The army of craftsmen, meteorologists, artists, rhetoricians, futurologists, sun Warlocks, data patterners, intuitionists, vasteners and devasteners, who formed the company and crew of the Solar Array and all its subsidiaries, were flown or radioed away, called to celebrate in the Grand Transcendence.
It was a Bohemian, Mathurin Regnier, who was one of the last defenders of the bulwarks of poetry, assailed by the phalanx of rhetoricians and grammarians who declared Rabelais barbarous and Montaigne obscure.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.
I described how Greek and Roman philosophers and rhetoricians contrasted two types of memory, natural and artificial.
The assemblies of the senate, which Constantius had avoided, were considered by Julian as the place where he could exhibit, with the most propriety, the maxims of a republican, and the talents of a rhetorician.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Romanized Greek rhetorician of the Augustan Age, stated frankly that he wrote his Archæ.
Like a prudent rhetorician, he suppresses the legal privilege of hiring champions.