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rhetorician


  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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