rhetorician

[ ret-uh-rish-uhn ]

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noun

an expert in the art of rhetoric.
a person who teaches rhetoric.

a person who writes or speaks in an elaborate or exaggerated style.

Origin of rhetorician

1375–1425; late Middle English rethoricien<Middle French rethoriquerhetoric + -ien-ian

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How to use rhetorician in a sentence

There he became not only a rhetorician, a revolutionary agitator, but a really great painter.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard Muther
The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
All his partisans were hunted out, and underwent the same fate, and among others Diophanes the rhetorician.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
The rhetorician straightened himself up and proceeded to the proof.
The Poniard's Hilt | Eugne Sue
This rhetorician appeared to me to build his firmly-cemented edifice with great ability.
Peter Schlemihl | Adelbert von Chamisso

British Dictionary definitions for rhetorician

rhetorician

/ (ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃən) /

noun

a teacher of the art of rhetoric
a stylish or eloquent writer or speaker

a person whose speech is pompous or extravagant

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