rhetorize

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English

Verb

rhetorize (third-person singular simple present rhetorizes, present participle rhetorizing, simple past and past participle rhetorized)

  1. (transitive) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
    • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
      As no less was that before his book against the Brownists , to write a letter to a Prosopopeia , a certain rhetorized woman whoin he calls mother , and complains of some that laid whoredom to her charge
  2. (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rhetorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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