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rhet.

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abbreviation

  1. rhetoric.

  2. rhetorical.

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It signifies, properly, grammar, logic, rhetoric, and ethics and metaphysics, which last, explaining the ultimate principles of grammar—log., rhet., and eth.—formed a circle of knowledge.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

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