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

Thus the claim that there is a new concept of evidence in the 1660s is mistaken; wherever we look what we find is nothing but the reworking of Quintilian’s distinctions.

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

From Literature

Quintilian is a fundamental reference point for Arnauld: ‘Quintilian and all the other rhetoricians, Aristotle and all the philosophers...’

From Literature

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

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

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