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of Pierre Ramé, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.] If a rethor couthe fair endite. Chaucer.

Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

xhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression. High style, as when that men to kinges write. Chaucer. Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posteri…

Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. The swell and subsidence of his periods. Landor.

m of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -…

A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word. Sir T. Browne.