rhetorician

[ ret-uh-rish-uhn ]

noun

1. an expert in the art of rhetoric.
2. a person who teaches rhetoric.
3. a person who writes or speaks in an elaborate or exaggerated style.

rhetorician

/ ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃən /

noun

1. a teacher of the art of rhetoric
2. a stylish or eloquent writer or speaker
3. a person whose speech is pompous or extravagant

Word History and Origins

Origin of rhetorician¹

1375–1425; late Middle English rethoricien < Middle French rethorique rhetoric + -ien -ian

Example Sentences

There he became not only a rhetorician, a revolutionary agitator, but a really great painter.

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The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.

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All his partisans were hunted out, and underwent the same fate, and among others Diophanes the rhetorician.

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The rhetorician straightened himself up and proceeded to the proof.

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This rhetorician appeared to me to build his firmly-cemented edifice with great ability.

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