Meaning of RHETORICIAN
| Pronunciation: | | `retu'rishun
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[n] a person who delivers a speech or oration |
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RHETORICIAN is a 11 letter word that starts with R. |
| | Synonyms: | | orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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