Quintilian

American  

[kwin-til-yuhn, -ee-uhn] / kwɪnˈtɪl yən, -i ən /

noun

1. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, a.d. c35–c95, Roman rhetorician.

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Quintilian British  

/ kwɪnˈtɪljən /

noun

1. Latin name Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. ?35–?96 _ad , Roman rhetorician and teacher

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Example Sentences

They are discussed in Book 5 of Quintilian’s Institutes of the Orator, a work which dates to the first century CE.

From Literature

When Quintilian says that circumstantial evidence can take the place of a witness, later lawyers took him as authorizing it to be considered as half of a complete proof.

From Literature

‘Circumstances’, we have seen, is Quintilian’s coinage.

From Literature

Quintilian’s example of an appeal to circumstance is a made-up one.

From Literature

This is the point at which this argument becomes interesting, for, as noted earlier, Quintilian does take signs to be equivalent to testimonies, and so does Parsons.

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