RHETORICIAN

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.

2.
n.

A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.

3.
n.

An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.

4.
a.

Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.