Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A teacher of rhetoric.
- noun An orator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rhetorician; a master or teacher of rhetoric.
- noun Among the ancient Greeks, an orator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A rhetorician.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
rhetorician .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rhetor was a man whose business it was to persuade or convince.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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I think it is because he once made an argument based on his authority as the author of the history of the oath, so a few people obviously questioned his honesty and pointed out how useless such argument are, especially from a master rhetor.
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The true rhetor knows how to dam his words better than to merely spill them, to issue his dispatches in a timely fashion for maximum effect.
Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010
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Since Cicero was above all else a rhetor, many of the problems discussed are germane here.
More On Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010
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As a postmodern rhetor Daniel seeks pleasure and enjoyment, but has to fight the virus in order to find moments to savor his life.
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A rhetoric of public theology: The religious rhetor and public policy.
American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide 2010
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As a postmodern rhetor Daniel seeks pleasure and enjoyment, but has to fight the virus in order to find moments to savor his life.
2010 January 2010
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Who would have imagined that transparency, participation and collaboration would be stated goals of any official U.S. government (USG) policy -- and not just in a rhetor ...
Chad Dobson: Obama's Schooling the Bank on Transparency 2009
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Who would have imagined that transparency, participation and collaboration would be stated goals of any official U.S. government (USG) policy -- and not just in a rhetor ...
Chad Dobson: Obama's Schooling the Bank on Transparency 2009
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Also she heard Quintilian, ancient rhetor: “most rules are liable to be altered by the nature of the case....”
Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson Lemon Hound 2009
chained_bear commented on the word rhetor
"Wisely, he used the dialectic of the rhetor to examine the argument..."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 293
October 8, 2008
kayballard commented on the word rhetor
The rhetor provides the discourse; the rhetorician studies it.
January 1, 2009