rhetorician
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1. rhetorician - Noun
2. rhetorician - Adjective
Meaning
One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
A teacher of rhetoric.
An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
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It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.
The complete man, then, is the "lover” added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
Although he is not commonly regarded as a rhetorician, St. Augustine (354-430) was trained in rhetoric and was at one time a professor of Latin rhetoric in Milan.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, textbook-approved order of argument from Swift's time (which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
In return, Socrates contradicts Gorgias' statements, because Gorgias had implied that if a rhetorician uses rhetoric for injustices, the teacher should not be at fault.