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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rhetorician
    n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator,
         speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker,
         speechifier]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a.
   Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride."
   --Blackmore.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.]
   1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
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            The understanding is that by which a man becomes a
            mere logician and a mere rhetorician. --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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   2. A teacher of rhetoric.
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            The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever
            had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred
            years old.                            --Bacon.
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   3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without
      genuine eloquence; a declaimer. --Macaulay.
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Thesaurus Results for rhetorician:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Cicero, Demosthenes, Gongorist, Marinist, William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, elocutionist, euphuist, fine writer, mannerist, master of style, orator, pedant, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, platform orator, public speaker, rhetor, soapbox orator, soapboxer, spellbinder, stump orator, stylist, teacher of rhetoric, wordspinner
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