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[syn: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a.
Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride."
--Blackmore.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.]
1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
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The understanding is that by which a man becomes a
mere logician and a mere rhetorician. --F. W.
Robertson.
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2. A teacher of rhetoric.
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The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever
had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred
years old. --Bacon.
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3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without
genuine eloquence; a declaimer. --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rhetorician
n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator,
speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker,
speechifier]