Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An expert in or teacher of rhetoric.
- noun An eloquent speaker or writer.
- noun A person given to verbal extravagance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A teacher of rhetoric or oratory; one who teaches the art of correct and effective speech or composition.
- noun One who is versed in the art and principles of rhetoric; especially, one who employs rhetorical aid in speech or written composition; in general, a public speaker, especially one who speaks for show; a declaimer.
- Belonging to or befitting a master of rhetoric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
- noun One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
- noun A teacher of rhetoric.
- noun An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An expert or student of
rhetoric . - noun An
orator oreloquent public speaker.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who delivers a speech or oration
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Examples
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To the logician, it appears to be a paradox, whereas the rhetorician is likely to ponder its persistent oscillation between the inalienable status of the name and the as yet unrealized authority of the concept.
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The rhetorician is a maker of beliefs in the souls of his auditors
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008
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He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as Lysias or one of the orators might have composed for him, or, according to some accounts, did compose for him.
The Apology 2006
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He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as
Apology 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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He calls the rhetorician, who was the master of Q. Mucius Scævola, consul B.C.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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In rhetoric, however, the term 'rhetorician' may describe either the speaker's knowledge of the art, or his moral purpose.
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His recovery was not in this instance due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an ancient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet, to his right: the hundreds of masts rising out of the merchant river; London's unrivalled mezzotint and the City 'rhetorician's inexhaustible argument: he gained it rather from the imperious demand of an animated and thirsty frame for novel impressions.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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His recovery was not in this instance due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an ancient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet, to his right: the hundreds of masts rising out of the merchant river; London's unrivalled mezzotint and the City 'rhetorician's inexhaustible argument: he gained it rather from the imperious demand of an animated and thirsty frame for novel impressions.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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His recovery was not in this instance due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an ancient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet, to his right: the hundreds of masts rising out of the merchant river; London's unrivalled mezzotint and the City 'rhetorician's inexhaustible argument: he gained it rather from the imperious demand of an animated and thirsty frame for novel impressions.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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An important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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