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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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