rhetorician

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rhet=o=ri=cian

CIDE DICTIONARY

rhetorician, n. [Cf. F. rhétoricien.].

•  One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.  [1913 Webster]

  "The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician."  [1913 Webster]
•  A teacher of rhetoric.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old."  [1913 Webster]
•  An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

rhetorician, a. 

 Suitable to a master of rhetoric.  Blackmore.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rhetorician, n.
1 an orator.
2 a teacher of rhetoric.
3 a rhetorical speaker or writer.

Etymology

ME f. OF rethoricien (as RHETORICAL)

THESAURUS

rhetorician

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

ROGET THESAURUS

rhetorician

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.