What is "rhetor"

Usage examples of "rhetor".

The Master Magus had judged Xalan not recovered enough to participate in the geomancy, so he now sat on a fur rug regaling the Commander and Bochas the rhetor with an account of my introduction to goats.

The important mystery mentioned by the Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all that was good.