Rhet`o*ri"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. rh'etoricien.]
1.
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.
A teacher of rhetoric.
The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.
Bacon.
3.
An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
Macaulay.
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Rhet`o*ri"cian, a.
Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
"With
rhetorician pride."
Blackmore.
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