01 n. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
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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.
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A teacher of rhetoric.“The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.” — Bacon.
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An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.