rhetorician

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/
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Noun

rhetorician (plural rhetoricians)

  1. An expert or student of rhetoric.
    Themistocles was a rhetorician.
    • 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
      As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
    • 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
      In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
  2. An orator or eloquent public speaker.

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