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rheˈtorically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
a. In a rhetorical manner. Also in Comb.
1543Bale Yet a Course 44 b, My lorde hath rhetorycallye begonne hys proposycyon to wynne hys audytorye,..in callynge them good peple. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 135 Many others cannot be drawne into Argument as writing Poetically, Rhetorically, Enigmatically, Hieroglyphically. 1788Wesley Wks. (1811) IX. 110, I could..write..floridly and rhetorically. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xxii. (1845) 459 Tertullian..perhaps speaks rhetorically, when he says, that the Gospel had penetrated into..countries, which had not as yet submitted to the Romans. 1904B. Russell in Mind XIII. 522 We may imagine a rhetorically minded soldier in battle saying to himself: ‘To advance is to die, to retreat is dishonour; better death than dishonour.’ 1927E. O'Neill Lazarus Laughed iv. 177 He laughs with a wild triumphant madness and again rhetorically. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 210 By means of a conscious rhetorically- and demagogically-forced row with the Opposition I won back both their respect and my popularity among my own party. 1976Nature 13 May 92/1 The choice between guns and butter was rhetorically offered by Goebbels to the German public.
b. With reference to the art of rhetoric.
1828Whately Rhet. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 270/1 Some passions may be, Rhetorically speaking, opposite to each other, though in strictness they are not so.
So rheˈtoricalness, ‘eloquentness’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1727). |