rhetorician en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌɹɛt.əˈɹɪ.ʃən/
Etymology
From Middle English rethoricien, from Old French retoricien; equivalent to rhetoric + -ian.
Meanings
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An expert or student of rhetoric.
Themistocles was a rhetorician.
As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
- An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhetoritian | alternative | lexicographic | |
| rhetoricians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (9)
la rhetor (expert or student of rhetoric) · la hrethor (expert or student of rhetoric) · hy հռետոր (orator or eloquent public speaker) · grc ῥήτωρ (orator or eloquent public speaker) · ru ритор (orator or eloquent public speaker) · grc ῥήτωρ (expert or student of rhetoric) · el ρήτορας (orator or eloquent public speaker) · hy հռետոր (expert or student of rhetoric) · ru ритор (expert or student of rhetoric)