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Definition of Rhetorician
1. Noun. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
Specialized synonyms: Eulogist, Panegyrist, Elocutionist, Haranguer, Spellbinder, Tub-thumper
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Specialized synonyms: Burke, Edmund Burke, Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully, Demosthenes, Henry, Patrick Henry, Isocrates
Derivative terms: Orate, Oratorical, Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Speechify
Definition of Rhetorician
1. n. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
2. a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
Definition of Rhetorician
1. Noun. An expert or student of rhetoric. ¹
2. Noun. An orator or eloquent public speaker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhetorician
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetorician
Literary usage of Rhetorician
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(3) Having gone to Rome, he was there appointed to a professorship of rhetoric <it
Milan. In his new home he listened, first as a rhetorician and for ..."
2. A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of by Sherwin Cody (1903)
"MACAULAY: THE rhetorician IT has been the fashion in these later days to ...
A mere rhetorician " has become almost a cant word in connection with him. ..."
3. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Theon, (Лм.ш.ч,) a rhetorician of Alexandria, supposed to have lived about 315
AD His principal extant work is entitled " Progymnasmata," or rules on ..."
4. Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry, Cardinal Newman by John Henry Newman (1895)
"He was a great rhetorician, and whatever he produced shows evidence on analysis
of having been constructed with the utmost niceness of instinct and deftness ..."
5. Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry, Cardinal Newman by John Henry Newman (1895)
"of the mass of men lies the key to what is most dis tinctive in his methods.
He was a great rhetorician, and whatever he produced shows evidence ..."
6. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"Spengel, 21/1-07. T. 92 sq.; Schanz, 138). According to these passages, he must
have been younger than Socrates, was at once poet, rhetorician, and teacher ..."
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