rhetoricians

But sometimes descriptivists are guilty of, at the least, a basic misunderstanding: they think that the iffy, messy, unscientific, but nevertheless useful advice of rhetoricians is a feckless attempt to do what the linguist is doing: articulate consistent algorithms of language, to arrive at scientific laws which can admit of no exceptions.

Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009

Early in the first century the censors issued an edict forbidding certain Latin rhetoricians to teach.

Roman life in the days of Cicero Alfred John Church 1870

But is interesting, to put it mildly, to hear one of the Bush Administration’s main rhetoricians locate the lost golden age at 1992 and 2000.

Matthew Yglesias » Fallows on Gerson 2007

GORGIAS: And you will observe, Socrates, that when a decision has to be given in such matters the rhetoricians are the advisers; they are the men who win their point.

Gorgias 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

"These corrupt comedians, called rhetoricians," says the Walloon contemporary already cited, "afforded much amusement to the people."

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845

"These corrupt comedians, called rhetoricians," says the Walloon contemporary already cited, "afforded much amusement to the people."

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62 John Lothrop Motley 1845

"These corrupt comedians, called rhetoricians," says the Walloon contemporary already cited, "afforded much amusement to the people."

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"These corrupt comedians, called rhetoricians," says the Walloon contemporary already cited, "afforded much amusement to the people."

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Words do matter and the writers of the Constitution were consumnate rhetoricians.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Whole Lot of Error Going On 2010

The Rhetoric is regarded by most rhetoricians as "the most important single work on persuasion ever written."

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009