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rhetorician

[ ret-uh-rish-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

rhetorician

/ ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃən /

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

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

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

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

The rhetorician straightened himself up and proceeded to the proof.

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

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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