3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rhetorician \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a.
Suitable to a master of rhetoric. ``With rhetorician pride.''
--Blackmore.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rhetorician
n : a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: {orator}, {speechmaker},
{public speaker}]
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