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Rhetorician
Pronunciation : Rhet`o*ri"cian
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. F. rh?toricien.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Rhet`o*ri"cian
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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