Definition of Rhetor

1. n. A rhetorician.

Definition of Rhetor

1. Noun. (obsolete) A rhetorician. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhetor

1. a teacher of rhetoric [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhetor

rheotropes
rheotropic
rheotropism
rhestocythemia
rhesus
rhesus disease
rhesus factor
rhesus incompatibility
rhesus macaque
rhesus macaques
rhesus monkey
rhesus monkeys
rhesuses
rhetic
rhetizite
rhetor (current term)
rhetoric
rhetorical
rhetorical device
rhetorical devices
rhetorical induction
rhetorical mode
rhetorical question
rhetorical questions
rhetorically
rhetoricalness
rhetoricate
rhetoricated
rhetoricates
rhetoricating

Literary usage of Rhetor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"V.— STUDY OF A PROVERB ATTRIBUTED TO THE rhetor APOLLONIUS. In treating of the orator's use of the pathetic appeal (de Inven- tione I 56, 109 fin. ..."

2. The Athenian Empire by George William Cox (1888)
"... concerted with them a plan of action to be carried out by the leaders who should remain behind him. At the head of these was the rhetor The ..."

3. History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1823)
"To account for this difficulty some critics have supposed, that the anonymous author of the rhetor, ad Herennium was a rhetorician, whose lectures Cicero ..."

4. Latin Literature of the Empire by Alfred Gudeman (1898)
"SENECA rhetor Introductory Letter to the Controversiae, addressed to his three sons. ... rhetor ..."

5. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Philo, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1854)
"ARISTIDES rhetor, (From 153 to 170, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius.) Aristides, at the beginning of his letter on the causes of the swelling of the ..."

6. Evenings with the skeptics; or, Free discussion on free thinkers by John Owen (1881)
"Never before had Augustine heard the doctrines of Manichaeanism presented in such a plausible and attractive guise. Still, though charmed as a rhetor with ..."

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