Definition of Rhetorician

Rhet`o`ri´cian
n.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.
a.1.Suitable to a master of rhetoric.


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