rhetoricizedadj.
/rᵻˈtɒrᵻsʌɪzd/, U.S. /rəˈtɔrəˌsaɪzd/ Expressed in rhetorical language; treated or presented in rhetorical terms. Also figurative.
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1868 T. H. Green in N. Brit. Rev. Mar. 150 They have been wrought into the rhetoricized philosophy of the press, the pulpit, and the platform.
1934 T. Wood Cobbers xviii. 235 This youngster was born with a golden tongue in its mouth and was fed on rhetoricized milk.
1972 G. S. Fraser in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind. II. xi. 395 The moral stance is strong just because, unlike Lawrence's changing and always dramatized or rhetoricized moral stances, it is not assertive.
1991 R. Copeland Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, & Transl. in Middle Ages (1995) iii. 65 Medieval translation emerges out of a tradition of rhetoricized enarratio.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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