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rhetorician|rɛtəˈrɪʃən|
Forms: 5–6 reth-, 6 ret-, 6–7 rheth-; 5 -icyen, -ycien, -ian, -icion, 5–6 -icien, 6 -ycyne, -icyan, -ian, -ycyne, 5–7 -ician, 6–7 -itian; 5 retricion, retrycyan, 8 returrition; 6– rhetorician.
[a. OF. rethoricien (rett-, rest-), mod.F. rhétoricien, f. L. rhētoricus rhetoric a. and n.2 or rhētorica rhetoric n.1: see -ician.]
1. A professor or teacher of the art of rhetoric (esp. in Ancient Greece and Rome); a professional rhetor or orator.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 176 After þe maner of gramariens, Nor lyke þe stile of rethoricyens, I toke nat on me þis story to translate. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 161 Victorius the rethoricion. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetry (Arb.) 25 And the Rethorician, and Logitian, considering what in Nature will soonest proue and perswade, thereon giue artificial rules. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 148 The figure Imago of the vulgar Rhetoricians. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 89 For all a Rhetoricians Rules, Teach nothing but to name his Tools. 1711Addison Spect. No. 231 ⁋4 Rhetoricians have recommended it [sc. modesty] to their Disciples as a Particular in their Art. 1838Thirlwall Greece V. 239 Isocrates was a Rhetorician by profession: the framing of sentences, and turning of periods, was the great business of his long life. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. ii. 329 A curious contrast to the Cynic was the philosophic rhetorician.
2.
†a. An eloquent or elegant writer. Obs.
b. One who uses rhetorical language or expression; esp. (often in depreciatory use) a public speaker who indulges in rhetoric.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy Prol. 57 O thou Calliope,..that wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens. c1440― Hors, Shepe & G. 185 Whan Rethoriciens han doon ther besy peyn Fressh Epistolis & lettris to endite. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 16 When that rough..simplicitie doeth raise vp a greater reuerence of it self than any Rhetoricians eloquence. 1588J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 25 It is a thing incident vnto a rethorician to be girding. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 8 Whoever intendeth his care rather to find out words than matter may bee holden for a verball Rhetorician, but no serious orator. 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. IV. 170 No one would call Bourdaloue a rhetorician. 1861London Rev. 20 Apr. 433/2 The finances of England are in the hands of a rhetorician, who, in place of acts, seeks to dazzle the people with fine promises. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §i. 731 Passionate as was Pitt's eloquence, it was the eloquence of a statesman, not of a rhetorician.
3. In English Roman Catholic schools, a scholar in the class of Rhetoric (see rhetoric 1 d).
1676in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1972) LXIII. 60 Rhetoricians. Jo. Brockholes. Jo. Townly. 1716N. Blundell Diary 3 May (1952) ix. 164 Mr Carroll being to leave, gave his schoolfellows the Returritions a treat. 1773H. T. Blount Diary 17 Apr. in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1972) LXIII. 354 Master John Bradshaw, Rhetorician, left the College, and returned to England. 1790in Mem. Stonyhurst Coll. (1881) 30 Academical exhibition in which the new President was finely complimented by the Rhetoricians. 1809[see philosopher 1 c].
4. attrib. or as adj.
1712Blackmore Creation iii. 140 Pyrrhonians..Boldly presum'd, with Rhetorician Pride, To hold of any Question either side. a1864Landor Imag. Conv., Pollio & Calvus Wks. 1876 II. 451 Asiatic never was Cicero, although he sometimes wore at the bottom of his rhetorician robe a flounce too many.
Hence rhetoˈricianism, the style of a rhetorician.
a1849Poe Wks. (1864) III. 143 ‘Deep calleth unto deep’ is a great improvement upon his previous rhetoricianism. |